Airbags
Defective 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. Defective airbags are in cars everywhere, and drivers often
don't discover this until it is too late.
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 should
have been prevented.
When properly designed, air bags can be useful safety devices. Unfortunately,
many air bag systems were poorly designed, resulting in numerous known air bag
defects which in turn have resulted in thousands of serious air bag injuries.
Defectively designed air bags are known to cause
brain hemorrhages, burst
hearts, severed brain stems, spinal injury, broken necks, blindings, TMJ
syndrome, facial bone fractures, upper extremity injuries and disfigurement.
These injuries have killed and paralyzed unsuspecting adults and children in
collisions in which no one would have been injured if the air bag
had not
deployed.
Some of the problems with air bags are as follows:
- Aggressively overpowered air bags
- Air bags without tethers (Internal straps which prevent over-extension)
- Inadequate sensors
- Inferior algorithms (software that controls the air bags)
- Improper venting and folding
- Failure to incorporate technology
- Failure to warn of known dangers
If you or a loved one has sustained injuries from a defective or recalled
air bag, please contact us
immediately.
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