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 SUVusually at least one crash sensor on each side of the vehicle. In a side impact crash should recognize one of your SAB sensors, the lateral side (to) delay and send an electrical signal to begin inflating the airbags.
SAB are usually installed in your seat to the upper part of the seat frame attached to the first door. In a few vehicles, they are installed in the door panel under the plastic. These have been developed to provide a protective cushionbetween you and the side of the 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 typeis known as "head and torso" bag. Bigger 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 taken by a higher vehicle like a pickup truck, van or SUV.
Anewer 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 airbags in the front seatback off, 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 disadvantages associated with such side airbags thatresulted 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 may lead to the sales staff and theDealers 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 from defective sensor placement or faulty softwareAlgorithms used in electronic sensors that do not recognize the crash severity. This may result from the negligent testing programs that are not crashes with the real world.
Some of SAB can hang up on the seat or trim parts, which use them incomplete or incorrect. In addition, a few systems developed SAB-deficient, so energetically, that they can cause serious injury or even catastrophic damage can, if they inflate. Such an "aggressive" side air bags are especially dangerous forChildren 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 numerous other injuries. In some cases, deficiencies of your side airBags can lead to death.
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