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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/23/13 12:17 PM |
Air bag dust, yuk!
Driving down a 45 MPH stretch of the main road to civilization yesterday from the edge we are at...
I see the car up in front of us maybe 3 cars ahead just starts veering over the double yellow. This road is busy and car are swerving around him to avoid a head on. He goes across the opposite shoulder, hits some rocks and huge railroad tie retaining wall sending huge rock almost into the road and into a pole. Was doing probably 40-45 when he hit the ties and probably that slowed him down for the pole impact. I think the rock/pole deployed the airbags and not sure how effective they still where on the secondary impact. No evidence of facial airbag contact we could notice.
The pole, which showed little damage considering it went 2' into the front of the car.
Anyway, Elaine and I where 1st on scene and the airbag dust was still abundant filling the car with the closed windows. Check pulses etc, car was still running for some reason. I thought ignition was suppose to be killed on air bag deployment?? At first I thought the bag dust was smoke. She was huge, he was pretty big too. And I really wanted to leave them in the vehicle until EMTs got on scene. Thankfully that is what transpired.
Older couple, no obvious trauma. Once he woke up was lucid as was she. He apparently blacked out driving. Had a Chemo port, maybe he should have let her drive...
So we waited out for the emergency services and got out of their way.
I still have that crap in my mouth throat even after massive gargling, sucks. But glad the folks probably probably have made it home that night. Unless internal injuries may have occurred.
Elaine came home from work having had a want to quit and look for another job day. Funny how this all erased all the stress from that. Although I do not recommenced it for distraction purposed.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield11/23/13 1:41 PM |
Glad it wasn't you guys.
"I thought ignition was suppose to be killed on air bag deployment"
--When my airbag blew (deer strike) I was able to drive along fine until I came upon a better place to pull over.
They say airbags are packed with cornstarch.
It's really weird to be involved in a deployment, like this (stream of consciousness:) a gunshot, the cabin is instantly filled with smoke, hey, that's the airbag.
They are fully inflated for a fraction of a second. They can't be much good for a second impact. I got a powder burn on my thumb. The shape of the deer from tip to tail was embossed on the hood.
I hope victims you witnessed recover quickly.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real11/23/13 6:38 PM |
My experience burned my arm. I walked away from a potentially deadly accident because of one.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/23/13 7:00 PM |
I think the newer system are better supposedly.
As to the power being less 'burny' on the newer systems, I dunno...
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven11/23/13 7:08 PM |
front air bags
I always wonder if the pluses out do the minuses of air bag, front ones at least, or are even necessary with seat belt use.
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC11/23/13 7:14 PM |
quote:
My experience burned my arm. I walked away from a potentially deadly accident because of one.
I got burned arm, plus some soreness of my chest for about 24 hrs.
I can't say it was for good though. It was only a fender bender. Most annoying because I lost the use of the car due to the airbag having deployed.
(I'm told the ignition cut off works this way: you can keep on driving, but you can't start the car again once you turn the ignition off. It disable the starter circuitry. I don't know if that's true or not but it does seem to make sense. You do want the car to be drivable if only to get to a safer location, like the side of the road -- mine happened in the middle lane of a 5 lane highway outside LA. Being able to drive to the shoulder was absolutely lifesaving function!)
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