Failure of airbag deployment

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and the professional comes out of the woodwork

FYI i am a total loss claims adjuster for major insurance company here in socal

based on the information you have provided without photos or being there (of course)..

it sounds as if your primary speed may have begun around the 30-45 you stated.. though you may directly impacted the frontal impact bar directly, by the time you finished skidding around the ice your speed decreased. so therefore, by the time the actual impact was made, you may have only been going 20-25. there are black boxes inside vehicles that can be pulled for information to determine the speed the crash impact was at & the speed at the time the brakes were depressed & how it took for brakes to work. AMAZING, EH

it is up to Toyota if they feel that they wish to investigate; however it sounds as if they dont feel it should have deployed in this situation & i rather agree with them. the sensor for front impact collision airbag deployment is not exactly centered straight on.. your license plate is in the center afterall! if it is not triggered exactly correctly & at the right speed, it will not deploy. No our airbags dont cost 3k, however.. a 2007 in avg condition has a approx acv(actual cash value) or 7-8 with a salvage value of approx 2k, leaving a threshhold of 5-6k in repairs. BUT if safety becomes involved (twisted frame or such) they will declare it total loss due to structural issues. IT IS NOT ALWAYS ECONOMIC TOTAL LOSS.


please dont fault the car for doing its job; youre not hurt, are you? if the airbag had gone off, you probably would have gotten airbag burn(those chemicals are super nasty!) and god forbid you were wearing glasses, broken your nose! if you dont believe how fast those things deploy, check out the recent Mythbusters thing they did... they shot a safety cone super high into the air simply by deploying an airbag on blacktop...



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