Air Bag Injury

While air bags are designed to save lives and prevent injuries, they can also cause severe injuries. This is due to the massive amount of force exerted when an air bag deploys. Air bag injuries are most common with small stature people and children. While uncommon, some injuries are caused by defective air bags.

A defective airbag injury can occur when an airbag deploys when it shouldn’t. In the event of a low-speed accident oftentimes, an airbag shouldn’t deploy. In types of accidents, the airbag would cause more harm than it would prevent. Air bag and eye injury can result when the airbag activates unexpectedly. This can also cause injuries to the head, chest, and arms of the driver and passenger.

In an effort to reduce the number of airbag injuries, manufactures have begun using “de-powered” airbags to help limit the amount force with which the air bag will deploy. This helps to protect smaller stature people from unnecessary force during an accident. With the introduction of “second generation airbags”, the car’s computer can now control the activation of the airbag based on many different calculations. This system can take into account the weight of the driver / passenger, forward momentum of the car, speed of the car and the position of the occupant in the seat. This is the latest advancement in airbag technology and helps to tailor the deployment of the airbags to each specific accident.