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.
truck wrecked air bags did not deploy????
Feb 05, 2007
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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)
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 ?
That switch only turns off the passenger side air bag.
Dave
Right down the center is pretty soft, it missed the frame rails and thus wouldnt have decelerated him fast enough to trip the sensor.
One must ask the question, was the truck purchased used?
mike
I doubt that, it only task one 'G' to trip the safing sensor.
mike
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.
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