I totaled my old truck hitting a deer. When I realized both bags deployed I was SO mad knowing what it meant. “It was a deer!! We didn’t need the airbags!!!”
If I had been in town (rather than 1,000 miles away) I would have been tempted to have bought it back from the insurance company and fixed it up. I did some research and you can get airbags for fairly cheap and install them yourself. But - I’m not sure if insurance or titles would agree with that.
Some insurance companies will not insure a car that has a salvage title. You can have a title “rebuilt” but some companies still won’t touch it.