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Originally Posted by Stang70Fastback
He said he only hit at about 30 km/hr. That's likely not hard enough to deploy the airbags. People always seem to think that airbags are big soft pillows that should deploy in all situations. This is not the case. Airbags are incredibly dangerous, even when they AREN'T being manufacturerd by Takata, and you don't want them deploying unless absolutely necessary. They are there to provide a marginally softer impact surface than your steering column, but they can still break bones. If the impact is such that the seat belt alone can keep your head from smashing something, then the airbags will not deploy.
He is alive and well. The car functioned properly. Unless he is horribly disfigured from his face smacking the steering wheel, nothing happened that wasn't within the design parameters.
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True, 30mph would've sufficed for airbags.