How does this happen? My son's 99 chevy p/up hit a light pole almost dead center in the front. No air bag deployment.
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17 years ago
truck wrecked air bags did not deploy????
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17 years ago
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How fast? How hard? There are times they are not supposed to deploy. Not enough information to say for sure (not that I know all the details anyway)
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17 years ago
Father in law's pickup has a switch that cuts the airbag off. And he KEEPS it off. Heard too many scary stories, I guess. Might your son' s have been switched off ?
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17 years ago
That switch only turns off the passenger side air bag.
Dave
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17 years ago
Right down the center is pretty soft, it missed the frame rails and thus wouldnt have decelerated him fast enough to trip the sensor.
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17 years ago
One must ask the question, was the truck purchased used?
mike
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17 years ago
I doubt that, it only task one 'G' to trip the safing sensor.
mike
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17 years ago
I doubt that. The g-force from a straight on hit is quite high - assuming the hit was at a high enough speed to activate an airbag regardless of sensor location.