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Defective Airbag

Injury type: Auto accident injuries due to defective or non-functioning airbags.
Causes: Airbags which deploy at the wrong time or do not deploy at all at the time of an accident.
Prevention: Be aware of any airbag recalls or safety precautions surrounding potential airbag failure.
Treatment: May require hospitalization due to serious defective airbag injury.
Related topics: Automobile Accidents, Traumatic Brain Injury
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Defective Airbags

An airbag is a type of supplemental safety device that is designed to provide additional safety to passengers in an automobile during a any accident or crash. Although not intended as primary safety devices, rather as a supplement to seat belts and other safety features of an automobile, airbags reduce the chance that an occupant's upper body or head will strike the vehicle's interior during a crash. Both frontal and side-impact air bags are designed to deploy in moderate to severe crashes.

However, airbags sometimes deploy at the wrong time and can even fail to deploy altogether. Serious injuries and even death can occur from airbags failing to open. Airbags are designed to deploy when a vehicle in forward motion decelerates quickly. Most airbag systems are created to sense vehicle deceleration corresponding to a frontal collision at speeds in excess of 20 to 25 mph. When airbags fail to deploy under these conditions, passengers don’t have the benefit of protection they expect from the airbag and can incur injuries that could have been prevented. With the rapid production of airbags, there has been a corresponding reduction in the severity of some crash-related injuries, and many lives have been saved by airbags which function properly. Unfortunately, there has been an alarming increase in the number of injuries and fatalities reported as the result of airbags failing to deploy. Defective airbags are in cars everywhere, and drivers often don’t discover this until it is too late.

Airbag Failures Prompt Auto Makers to Issue Recalls

Since their invention in the 1950s, up through development during the 1970s and finally institution as a required feature in the 1980s, airbags have become an important factor in decreasing injuries of those involved in automotive accidents. Airbags function as supplemental safety devices designed to work with seat belts to minimize injuries in vehicle accidents. In theory, airbags reduce the chance that the occupant of a vehicle's upper body or head will strike the vehicle's interior during a crash, thus decreasing the incidence of injury. read more

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Defective Airbags Jury Verdicts

______ Defense verdict - Products Liability Product Liability - Airbag - Untimely Deployment - Defense Verdict

______ $250,000 against DaimlerChrysler Corporation. - DaimlerChrysler Found Liable for Failure of Airbag to Deploy

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