Air Bag Deploys At WrongTime.

My last post on the subject in this thread at least.

I noted my FIL kept the air bag switch in his pickup on
"Off". I just thought he was being old-fogeyish.

Then, my stock advisor's daughter was injured in an
auto accident where the bag DID activate.. She required
surgery, including plastic surgery, to repair the injury
that the bag caused.

I still think that they save lives, but there is no doubt
they can be dangerous in their own right.

On 05/25/2011 05:56 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
> On 2011-05-25, > wrote:
>> I still think that they save lives, but there is no doubt
>> they can be dangerous in their own right.
>
> It is not clear to me that they save lives when the occupants
> are properly belted in. Air bags were originally introduced
> because so many people were not buckling their seat belts,
> thus passive restraints were mandated.
>

i think they work for chicks that insist on sitting hunched right up
over the wheel. even with a belt on, impact causes the head to strike
the steering wheel pretty hard.


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