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To: CharlesWayneCT

20 mph frontal crash and the airbag didn’t deploy?


41 posted on 03/11/2010 10:38:29 AM PST by green iguana
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To: green iguana
Oh, the airbags deployed all right. Quite a shock. For all I know, I even lost a few seconds of awareness -- I never saw the pole (it was right in the sun), and then the radio was playing music (it had been on talk just before). Both air bags went off, along with the seat belt tightener explosives -- which causes the seat belt to melt lines into my vinyl jacket, and left some bruises along that path.

They sent me to the hospital to have an EKG, but everything was fine, and they made me go home for the day because I was a bit woosie -- I just think i was in shock, the car was 2 weeks old.

It all worked out. I had to wait 4 months on the waiting list to get a replacement, but the insurance totaled it and covered it in full because it was so new. Only accident I've ever caused in my life, so didn't effect my insurance premiums either.

The snow was from AFTER The accident. The pole was unharmed. I did not back up the car -- that's how far it bounced back after it hit the pole.

42 posted on 03/11/2010 11:43:05 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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