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Well, that was fun while it lasted. Today my "new" RV was totaled in a head-on collision with a woman who had lost control of her car and spun into my lane. She had been forced out of her lane by a ...
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fj12ryder wrote:drsteve wrote:The problem, as mentioned earlier, is that some air bag injuries occur at low to moderate speeds, and you basically would have had no injuries if the airbag hadn't deployed.
X2.
Another thing to consider is, if a collision is so forceful that the seat belt or air bag injures you, what would the steering wheel and windshield have done? Or being throw around inside, or from the vehicle?
A lot of auto accident injuries and fatalities occur in low to moderate speed crashes. According to NHTSA, half of fatalities are in low speed accidents. The data below is old, but it's probably reasonable to think not much has changed.
http://mpainesyd.com/idisk/Public/carsafety/paine_impact_speeds_jan07.pdf
