While all new vehicles sold today use frontal airbags, which made the steering wheel and dashboard, you need to protect on crash, have too many side airbags for your protection during side impact collision.
This article explains how they work, identifying the various types of side air bags, and how any deficiencies and the injuries they cause.
How Side Air Bags Work
Side airbags are also known as side impact protection and airbags are abbreviated as SAB orSIAB. They are designed to protect you if your car hit on the side, like at an intersection (T-bone accident) or if your car slides off the road and the page hits a tree or power pole.
Crash sensors for SAB are typically installed at the bottom of the B-pillar, which hold the post behind the front door, which helps the roof. In some vehicles, these crash sensors inside the door or near the rear seat.
Your car, truck, van or SUV has, as a ruleleast one crash sensor on each side of the vehicle. During a side impact crash, one of your SAB sensors should detect the sideways (lateral) deceleration and send an electrical signal to the air bags to begin inflating.
SABs are most commonly installed inside your seat, attached to the upper part of the seat frame nearest the door. In a few vehicles, they are installed inside your door, beneath the plastic trim cover. These are designed to provide a protective cushion between you and the Side car.
Types of Side Air Bags
There are three main types of side airbags. The first is called "Torso" wheels, known only as it protects the upper body or upper body. Rectangular and rather small, it is often less than 18 inches tall when fully inflated.
This type was used in many of the first vehicles with SAB. Unfortunately, these airbags are generally only a very little protection for your head and neck.
The second type is known as"Head and torso" bag. Larger than a normal torso pocket, it extends upward to protect the head and neck, and chest and upper body during the impact of accidents on this page.
Generally, these types of airbags to protect you much better in an accident through the protection of the head, neck and chest by the side of the car and the vehicle that you make. This is especially true when you are in the side of the vehicle by a higher vehicle like a pickup truck, van or pressSUV.
A newer type of SAH is the "curtain" airbags. A curtain airbag deployed downwards from the edge of the roof and most of the windows is determined. In this way they can protect the head and neck, even if they otherwise move outside the window during the accident.
To have maximum protection curtain airbags are sometimes associated with torso airbags that deploy from the seat or door trim to protect your chest. Expand in many cases, such as curtain airbagsfrom the front seat to the rear, and can therefore also to protect rear seat passengers.
In previous years, other types of SAB were sometimes used, but on a much smaller scale. For example, a few cars a tubular protection system is used, consisting of an air bag shaped like a tube that ran from the front to the back of the door that covers the window. These systems require a separate torso airbags adequately protect your chest. Often there were significant disadvantagesin connection with such side airbags, which resulted in limited use.
Many people do not know, there are a lot of SAB not to use the in a rollover accident, even if the vehicle rolls onto its side. This is because the SAB is not an appropriate crash sensor that detects rollover crashes are doing.
We have to say reports of salespeople at car dealerships, consumers that their SAB in rollover accidents deploy, even if it is not it survives. Such statements mayCause of vendors and distributors be liable for misrepresentation or fraud, if not the airbags deploy in a rollover.
Side Air Bag Defects and Injuries
Common deficiencies in SAB systems include lack of a driver-side install or install only a torso airbags, which protect the head and neck not. Perhaps the most common defect reported to us the failure of the SAB is to deploy to a side impact crash. Often this results fromdefective sensor placement or defective software algorithms in electronic sensors that fail to detect the crash severity. This can stem from negligent testing programs that do not address real-world crashes.
Some SABs can hang up on the seat or trim panels, causing them to deploy incompletely or improperly. Also, a few SAB systems were defectively designed to be so forceful that they can inflict serious personal injuries or even catastrophic injuries when they inflate. Such "aggressive" Side air bags are especially dangerous for children and infants.
These defects can cause serious personal injuries, including brain trauma, traumatic brain injury (TBI), skull fractures, facial injuries, spinal cord injuries, cervical spine fractures or dislocations, paralysis (paraplegia, quadriplegia), arm and hand injuries, including traumatic amputations, chest injuries, heart injuries, pelvic injuries, fractures / orthopedic injuries, flail chest, and many otherInjuries. In some cases, defects can in your side airbags cause death.
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