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•Credit air bags with being lifesavers
Sheri Shepherd doesn't remember hearing the 170 decibel explosion as her air bag inflated. She doesn't remember feeling the air bag as it was propelled into her face and chest at 220 mph.
•Alternatives to Deactivating your Airbags
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•Impressive Crash Test Performance for Vehicles with Side Airbags that also Protect People's Heads
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•Request Form for Authorization to Install an Airbag On-Off Switch
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•Use Of Incomplete Data Distorts Conclusions About Effectiveness Of Frontal Airbags
Are you safer in a vehicle with or without a frontal airbag? With the airbag, of course, despite a study by Mary Meyer and Tremika Finney of the University of Georgia. The main finding — that airbags cause more deaths than they prevent— is contradicted by years of published research establishing that airbags save lives.
•Occupant Deaths From Inflating Airbags Have Been All But Eliminated
Evidence accumulates year by year that inflating frontal airbags in newer vehicles are causing few deaths and injuries. From a high of 68 deaths attributed to inflating airbags in 1995 model vehicles, only 1 such death occurred in a 2004 model (a 56-year-old woman in the front passenger seat). No deaths were caused by inflating airbags in 2002-03 models.
•Consumers Gain New Information About Side Airbags That Meet Rules to Reduce Inflation Injury Risk
A voluntary agreement among automakers to test side airbags, using a set of performance requirements, is helping to assure that these features won’t injure children and outof- position occupants in crashes.
•Survey Finds Widespread Misuse Of Air Bag On-Off Switches in Pickups
Proper use of the switches requires drivers to turn the air bag off for children 12 and under but activate it when the passenger seat is occupied by an adult.
•A Chronology of Airbag Use in the United States
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•AAA Survey Finds Repair Shops Unwilling to Install Airbag Switches
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•Airbag Update
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•Airbags and Injury
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•Airbags are Proven to be Effective Safety Devices
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•Airbags Save Lives
Ever wonder if airbags are a safety risk? Here is all the information you need in order to know if you should keep them turned on.
•Airbags with Switches Expert Argues Safety Benefits Increasing Occupant Safety
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•Airbags, Better Safe, or Sorry?
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•An Infant Should Never be Placed in Front of an Airbag!
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•Availability of Manufacturer-Produced On-Off Switches
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•Do Both Children and Adults Face Risk for Injury from Airbags?
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•Head Restraint Designs Differ in Effectiveness
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Sheri Shepherd doesn't remember hearing the 170 decibel explosion as her air bag inflated. She doesn't remember feeling the air bag as it was propelled into her face and chest at 220 mph.
•Alternatives to Deactivating your Airbags
Read more…
•Impressive Crash Test Performance for Vehicles with Side Airbags that also Protect People's Heads
Read more…
•Request Form for Authorization to Install an Airbag On-Off Switch
Read more…
•Use Of Incomplete Data Distorts Conclusions About Effectiveness Of Frontal Airbags
Are you safer in a vehicle with or without a frontal airbag? With the airbag, of course, despite a study by Mary Meyer and Tremika Finney of the University of Georgia. The main finding — that airbags cause more deaths than they prevent— is contradicted by years of published research establishing that airbags save lives.
•Occupant Deaths From Inflating Airbags Have Been All But Eliminated
Evidence accumulates year by year that inflating frontal airbags in newer vehicles are causing few deaths and injuries. From a high of 68 deaths attributed to inflating airbags in 1995 model vehicles, only 1 such death occurred in a 2004 model (a 56-year-old woman in the front passenger seat). No deaths were caused by inflating airbags in 2002-03 models.
•Consumers Gain New Information About Side Airbags That Meet Rules to Reduce Inflation Injury Risk
A voluntary agreement among automakers to test side airbags, using a set of performance requirements, is helping to assure that these features won’t injure children and outof- position occupants in crashes.
•Survey Finds Widespread Misuse Of Air Bag On-Off Switches in Pickups
Proper use of the switches requires drivers to turn the air bag off for children 12 and under but activate it when the passenger seat is occupied by an adult.
•A Chronology of Airbag Use in the United States
Read more…
•AAA Survey Finds Repair Shops Unwilling to Install Airbag Switches
Read more…
•Airbag Update
Read more…
•Airbags and Injury
Read more…
•Airbags are Proven to be Effective Safety Devices
Read more…
•Airbags Save Lives
Ever wonder if airbags are a safety risk? Here is all the information you need in order to know if you should keep them turned on.
•Airbags with Switches Expert Argues Safety Benefits Increasing Occupant Safety
Read more…
•Airbags, Better Safe, or Sorry?
Read more…
•An Infant Should Never be Placed in Front of an Airbag!
Read more…
•Availability of Manufacturer-Produced On-Off Switches
Read more…
•Do Both Children and Adults Face Risk for Injury from Airbags?
Read more…
•Head Restraint Designs Differ in Effectiveness
Read more…
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