Defective airbags sometimes deploy at the wrong time and can even fail to deploy altogether. Serious injuries and even death can occur from airbags failing to open. Defective airbags are in cars everywhere, and drivers often dont discover this until it is too late.

Airbags are designed to deploy when a vehicle in forward motion decelerates quickly. Most airbag systems are created to sense vehicle deceleration corresponding to a frontal collision at speeds in excess of 20 to 25 mph. When airbags fail to deploy under these conditions, passengers dont have the benefit of protection they expect from the airbag and can incur injuries that should have been prevented.

When properly designed, air bags can be useful safety devices. Unfortunately, many air bag systems were poorly designed, resulting in numerous known air bag defects which in turn have resulted in thousands of serious air bag injuries. Defectively designed air bags are known to cause brain hemorrhages, burst hearts, severed brain stems, spinal injury, broken necks, blindings, TMJ syndrome, facial bone fractures, upper extremity injuries and disfigurement. These injuries have killed and paralyzed unsuspecting adults and children in collisions in which no one would have been injured in if the air bag didn't deploy.

Some of the problems with air bags are as follows:

• Aggressively overpowered air bags
• Air bags without tethers (Internal straps which prevent over-extension)
• Inadequate sensors
• Inferior algorithms (software that controls the air bags)
• Improper venting and folding
• Failure to incorporate technology
• Failure to warn of known dangers

If you or a loved one has sustained injuries from a deffective or recalled air bag, please contact us immediately.