I'm skeptical of this story, but I don't know much about airbag systems. Has anyone heard of this happening? Does it even make any sense?
------------------------- My brother was recently in a car accident and was lucky not to be hurt. I went with him when he took the car to the body shop and learned some valuable safety information. Just after we arrived, someone drove in a car, that was not badly damaged, however the air bags had deployed. The manager of the body shop informed the driver that you should NEVER drive a car after airbags have deployed, no matter how slight the damage to the car seems. He told us that many car airbags have 2 deployments, one fast and one slow. If your airbag had a slow deployment, the fast mechanism may still be "loaded" and could deploy without warning depending on the damage to your car.
It may seem obvious not to drive a damaged car with a deployed airbag however I thought this was a good safety learning about deployed bags in cars with minor damage.
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