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3/1/2008
Brian Beckcom
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Houston Driver Suffers Brain Injury when Airbag Fails to Deploy
A Houston man was left with permanent brain damage when he was involved in an accident with a car on the 610 West Loop, and his driver’s side airbag failed to deploy.  His brain damage was caused when his head slammed against his car’s steering wheel, which would not have happened had his airbag functioned as expected.
 
There have been dozens of other cases in the Houston area where airbags have failed to deploy in a crash.  This has prompted lawsuits and investigations into why airbags fail to deploy in some accidents.
 
A review of recall statistics at Safecar.gov reveals that since airbags were first implemented in passenger vehicles, there have been over 700 recalls due to airbag or airbag component failures.  What is causing all these recalls?
 
Manufactures claim that airbags are governed by complicated, highly scientific sensors that are programmed to determine exactly when an airbag should and should not deploy.  According to vehicle manufacturers, it may seem as though an airbag should have deployed, but if the accident was a side-impact crash instead of a full head-on crash, the airbag would have been prevented from deploying in order to protect the driver from being injured by the bag.
 
Of course this is little consolation to the gentleman who was left with permanent brain damage after his head-on collision, and countless others like him.  If you suspect that your airbag should have deployed but did not, the NHTSA wants to hear from you.  You can contact them at 1-888-327-4236 or go to www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq to file a complaint.


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