Is your Frontal or Side Impact Really an Auto Products Airbag Case?

When airbags work properly, they are critical to preventing injuries and saving lives; however, an airbag that is improperly designed or manufactured can seriously injure or kill innocent people. Faulty airbags can fail in a number of ways, including if the airbag:

• Hit an occupant before being fully inflated.
• Punched out of its storage compartment and strikes an occupant with excessive force.
• Deployed unnecessarily in a minor accident, causing injury that would not have happened otherwise.
• Ruptured and sprayed shrapnel into the vehicle compartment, like the problem with Takata airbags.
• Failed to deploy.
• Had incorrectly calibrated sensors that caused overly aggressive deployment or no deployment at all.

In airbag cases it is important to evaluate whether the airbag caused or enhanced the injury, such as loss of an eye, blindness, head trauma, shrapnel injury, or failed to deploy and prevent a catastrophic head or spinal cord injury.