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July 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM #436073July 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM #435312
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ParticipantIt takes a pretty good hit to get an airbag to deploy in some cases. I’ve been in two accidents where my car looked like I was hit by a train and the bags didn’t deploy. The accidents were not high speed impacts though. Still gave me a good whack and did over $10k in damage in both cases. But the airbags would not have done any good had they deployed. Heck they might have hurt me worse than the seat belt did. The thing is that with modern cars even a moderate accident looks like a train wreck.
July 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM #435517ParticipantIt takes a pretty good hit to get an airbag to deploy in some cases. I’ve been in two accidents where my car looked like I was hit by a train and the bags didn’t deploy. The accidents were not high speed impacts though. Still gave me a good whack and did over $10k in damage in both cases. But the airbags would not have done any good had they deployed. Heck they might have hurt me worse than the seat belt did. The thing is that with modern cars even a moderate accident looks like a train wreck.
July 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM #435836ParticipantIt takes a pretty good hit to get an airbag to deploy in some cases. I’ve been in two accidents where my car looked like I was hit by a train and the bags didn’t deploy. The accidents were not high speed impacts though. Still gave me a good whack and did over $10k in damage in both cases. But the airbags would not have done any good had they deployed. Heck they might have hurt me worse than the seat belt did. The thing is that with modern cars even a moderate accident looks like a train wreck.
July 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM #435909ParticipantIt takes a pretty good hit to get an airbag to deploy in some cases. I’ve been in two accidents where my car looked like I was hit by a train and the bags didn’t deploy. The accidents were not high speed impacts though. Still gave me a good whack and did over $10k in damage in both cases. But the airbags would not have done any good had they deployed. Heck they might have hurt me worse than the seat belt did. The thing is that with modern cars even a moderate accident looks like a train wreck.
July 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM #436078ParticipantIt takes a pretty good hit to get an airbag to deploy in some cases. I’ve been in two accidents where my car looked like I was hit by a train and the bags didn’t deploy. The accidents were not high speed impacts though. Still gave me a good whack and did over $10k in damage in both cases. But the airbags would not have done any good had they deployed. Heck they might have hurt me worse than the seat belt did. The thing is that with modern cars even a moderate accident looks like a train wreck.
July 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM #435317PCinSD
GuestI would call my insurance company.
July 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM #435522GuestI would call my insurance company.
July 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM #435841GuestI would call my insurance company.
July 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM #435914GuestI would call my insurance company.
July 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM #436083GuestI would call my insurance company.
July 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM #435336socrattt
ParticipantOther than Bob, I think these are all pretty good answers!
You obviously have a lot of different options, but your family needs to handle the situation according to what their gut instinct tells them. Personally, I would stay away from the whole lawsuit mentality unless someone in the family was really hurt.
Do a little research and detective work and maybe you can assess the combined impact speed and then check to find out at what speed the airbags should deploy. Toyota makes some of the safest cars in the industry. If it was a GM or Ford I would be highly skeptical:).
I hope the family is ok!
July 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM #435542ParticipantOther than Bob, I think these are all pretty good answers!
You obviously have a lot of different options, but your family needs to handle the situation according to what their gut instinct tells them. Personally, I would stay away from the whole lawsuit mentality unless someone in the family was really hurt.
Do a little research and detective work and maybe you can assess the combined impact speed and then check to find out at what speed the airbags should deploy. Toyota makes some of the safest cars in the industry. If it was a GM or Ford I would be highly skeptical:).
I hope the family is ok!
July 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM #435861ParticipantOther than Bob, I think these are all pretty good answers!
You obviously have a lot of different options, but your family needs to handle the situation according to what their gut instinct tells them. Personally, I would stay away from the whole lawsuit mentality unless someone in the family was really hurt.
Do a little research and detective work and maybe you can assess the combined impact speed and then check to find out at what speed the airbags should deploy. Toyota makes some of the safest cars in the industry. If it was a GM or Ford I would be highly skeptical:).
I hope the family is ok!
July 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM #435934ParticipantOther than Bob, I think these are all pretty good answers!
You obviously have a lot of different options, but your family needs to handle the situation according to what their gut instinct tells them. Personally, I would stay away from the whole lawsuit mentality unless someone in the family was really hurt.
Do a little research and detective work and maybe you can assess the combined impact speed and then check to find out at what speed the airbags should deploy. Toyota makes some of the safest cars in the industry. If it was a GM or Ford I would be highly skeptical:).
I hope the family is ok!
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