Auto safety expert and car accident lawyer Todd Tracy describes how the front airbag works and is supposed to protect occupants in a car crash.
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Hello. I’m Todd Tracy with the Tracy Law Firm in Dallas, Texas and I’m here to talk to you today about the purpose of a frontal airbag.
A lot of times people think, “What exactly is my airbag supposed to do?” Well, let me put it to you like this. The front airbag is a safety system that is a high speed collision protection device. You don’t need it if you’re in a parking lot because your seatbelt will do its job.
If you’re on the highway going highway speeds, if you’re at a stoplight and somebody runs through a stop sign, you need your airbag. Why does the airbag protect you in an accident? Well, I want you to think about it like this.
Usually we just have a seatbelt on that’s one and three-quarter inches wide, protecting our chest and our torso and our lap. However, in a high speed event, your body gets overloaded with that, so you need the airbag.
The airbag is over 30 inches wide, so instead of having something poking at you like a knife blade, it’s something that’s very dull like the – like a baseball coming into you or a basketball coming into you rather than the tip of a knife point or the tip of a pin.
The whole idea behind vehicle safety is distributing the loads, distributing the forces over a wide area as possible. Would you rather be protected by one and three-quarter inches or by 30 inches? I don’t know about you. I would rather have the front airbag deploy and give me 30 inches of coverage to protect my chest, my heart, my torso and my head.
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