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over a year ago
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Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag. |
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"Yep. Didn't register what had happened at first. Can't remember it hurting but was a shock for sure. No damage to the face. "
I can imagine it being a big shock when suddenly it blasts into your face. |
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"Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag."
Jeez! You're quite lucky then.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag.
Jeez! You're quite lucky then. "
Yeah I was. Smashed my head up pretty good and was picking bits of glass out for days but healed amazingly well. |
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"Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag.
Jeez! You're quite lucky then.
Yeah I was. Smashed my head up pretty good and was picking bits of glass out for days but healed amazingly well."
Bants, I'm surprised you're still more or less intact and only missing small parts of your anatomy  |
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"Go drive brand new Merc into a brick wall at 100mph and find out for yourself OP 
I drove my seat Leon into the back of a brand new gold at much lower speed for mine to go off  "
Yeah, some seem to go off whist braking for a kiddie crossing the road these days,
I don't really know much about them, but they seem to be stopping people getting serious injuries |
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"Has anyone ever experienced an airbag going off. I'm curious to what it feels like, soft, or hard? "
I was hit head on by a d*unken driver driving without lights. Immediately prior to impact I had hit the horn. Of course the airbag lives behind the horn pad the result was spiral fractures in all four fingers of my right hand across my palm.
The surgeon asked for my permission to write an article in the Lancet as it hadn't been recorded before. K wires were needed from knuckle to wrist to stabilise until healed eight weeks later.
So certainly not soft!
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"Go drive brand new Merc into a brick wall at 100mph and find out for yourself OP
I drove my seat Leon into the back of a brand new gold at much lower speed for mine to go off
Yeah, some seem to go off whist braking for a kiddie crossing the road these days,
I don't really know much about them, but they seem to be stopping people getting serious injuries "
I managed to have my car roll over twice, having been struck by a 40t lorry at 40mph but no airbag went off.
Despite this, the Euro NCAP 5* kept me pretty well intact... |
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"Go drive brand new Merc into a brick wall at 100mph and find out for yourself OP
Great idea. I'll report back. Hopefully. "
You could always send Richard Hammond and get a seatbelt report as well  |
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"Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag.
Jeez! You're quite lucky then.
Yeah I was. Smashed my head up pretty good and was picking bits of glass out for days but healed amazingly well.
Bants, I'm surprised you're still more or less intact and only missing small parts of your anatomy "
Haha...I've had a fair few accidents in my time. None have really been my fault either! Kinda lucky to have made it to 40 with only 3 finger tips missing!  |
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"Yeah but due to being a silly twat and not wearing a seat belt, it was my chest that hit the airbag as my head smashed the windscreen! Ouch.
When I realised what happened, I thought the interior of the van was on fire and all smokey but it was just the dust from the airbag.
Jeez! You're quite lucky then.
Yeah I was. Smashed my head up pretty good and was picking bits of glass out for days but healed amazingly well.
Bants, I'm surprised you're still more or less intact and only missing small parts of your anatomy
Haha...I've had a fair few accidents in my time. None have really been my fault either! Kinda lucky to have made it to 40 with only 3 finger tips missing! "
Don't try and outdo yourself in the coming years, eh?!
See, I'm falling to bits, but pretty much none of it is due to accidents or stupidity |
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A few people report facial friction burns from airbags going off in accidents but only superficial.
There was once a mechanic who set one off by accident touching wires together & knocked himself out cold. Detonating old ones in a lidded dustbin with a car battery is childish but amusing none the less lol.  |
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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago
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Wife wiped out a HSE Land Rover and had to climb out of the sunroof.
Came out without a scratch.
Emergency services did say a lighter car, the outcome might not have been so good.
Even the dog on the back seat was checked over (when we found him) by a vet, nothing physically wrong with him.
So I suspect, airbags, like most things it depends on a holistic big picture, not one single thing. |
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