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While all new vehicles sold today have front air bags, which results from the steering wheel and dashboard used to protect you in a frontal crash, many also have side air bags, side impact protection around you during sign.

This article explains such as side air bags work, the different types of side air bags, and how the possible shortcomings and the injuries they cause.

As Side airbags work

Side airbags are sometimes as side impact protection and airbags are as SAB or SIAB abbreviated. They are designed to to protect you if your car is hit on the side, as meets the intersection (T-bone) accident or if you are sliding your car off the road and its side streets a tree or power pole.

Crash sensors for side airbags are generally within the bottom of the B-pillar, behind the Post Office the front door to help until the roof is installed. In some vehicles, this crash sensors are inside the front door or near the rear seat area.

Your car, truck, van or SUV is usually at least one crash sensor on each side of the vehicle. During a side impact crash, you should from your side Airbag sensors to detect the start sideways (lateral) delay and inflated to send an electrical signal to the airbag.

Side airbags usually in your seat, installed at the top of the seat frame next door. installed in a few vehicles, the side air bags are bags in your door, is under the plastic trim . Cover These side air bags are designed to a protective cushion between you and the page indicate the vehicle.

Types of side airbags

There are three main types of side airbags. The first is called "Torso" known airbag, as it protects only the torso or upper body. Rectangular and rather small, it is often less than 18 inches tall when fully inflated.

This guy was in many of the first vehicles with side airbags equipped. Unfortunately, these air bags generally little protection for head and neck.

The second type of side air bags as a "head and Torso Bag known. Taller scope than a normal torso bag it upward to the head and neck and the chest and torso protecting side impact accidents.

Generally this type of air bag protects you much better in an accident by protecting your head, neck and chest from the side of the car and the vehicle to meet you. This is especially true if you are in the side of the vehicle taken by a higher vehicle, such as a pickup truck, van or SUV.

A newer type the side airbag is the "curtain" air bags. A curtain airbag deploys down from the edge of the roof and is intended to cover most of the windows. So it can protect the Head and neck, otherwise even if they move outside the window during the accident.

For maximum protection curtain airbags sometimes Torso airbags that from the seat or door panels combined to provide protection to the chest. extend in many cases such as curtain airbags in the front seat rear, and can also protect rear passengers.

In previous years, other types of side air bags sometimes used, but on a much smaller scale. For example, some cars use a tubular protection system consisting of an air bag as a tube on the front of the Back of the door was formed, which is about the window. These systems require a separate torso airbags adequately protect your chest. Often there were significant disadvantages such side air bags, which resulted in limited use connected.

Many people do not realize there are a lot of side airbags that are not in a Rollover accident deploy to do, even if the vehicle rolls on its side. This is because the side airbags do not crash a suitable sensor that rollover crashes can recognize.

We have received reports of salesmen at dealerships tell consumers that their side-impact airbags in rollover accidents Providing even if that is not true. Such statements may be liable to cause Seller and the dealer for misrepresentation or fraud, if the air bag not in a Rollover provide.

Side air bag defects and injuries

Common defects in lateral view Airbag Systems include failure to install a side airbag or the installation of only a torso airbags that fails to protect the head and neck. Perhaps the most common defect reported us is the failure of the side airbag will not deploy in a side impact crash. Often this results from defective or faulty sensor placement software algorithms in the electronic Sensors that do not recognize the seriousness of the crash. This may result from the negligent testing programs do not address real-world crashes stem.

Some side air bags can hang up on the seat or coverings, which they use incomplete or incorrect. In addition, a few pages designed airbag systems flawed, so powerful that they can cause serious personal injury or damage even catastrophic injuries when they inflate. Such "aggressive" side air bags are especially dangerous for children and infants.

These defects can cause serious personal injury, including brain injury, 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 amputation, chest injuries, heart injuries, pelvic injuries, fractures / orthopedic injuries, flail Breast, and numerous other injuries. In some cases, defects in your side airbags cause of your death.

About the Author

Taras Rudnitsky's unique background as an automotive safety engineer, expert witness and attorney provides invaluable insight when analyzing potential automotive crashworthiness cases throughout Florida and the United States. He has been a featured speaker in the areas of air bags, seat belts, crashworthiness, occupant restraint systems and manufacturing defects/quality control, as well as a governmental defect investigation that led to the recall of an air bag system. Additional articles are available at http://www.CarSafetyLawyer.com.

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