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The W223 S-Class is the first car equipped with rear seat airbags that use gas to inflate supporting structures that unfold and extend a bag that fills with ambient air, instead of conventional fully gas-inflated airbags that are widely used in automotive airbag systems. [63] [64]
English: Graph showing the number of lives saved by safety belts and air bags in the US every year from 1991 to 2001. According to a study by Donna Glassbrenner, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.
A type of Takata air bag inflator once thought to be safe has now come under scrutiny after a minivan crash and explosion in Maryland Honda recalls 1.2 million vehicles with dangerous air bags ...
The air bags can inflate even without a crash due to high temperatures in the cabin, the company said. Stellantis recalls nearly 318,000 cars to replace side air bags that can explode and hurl ...
Nissan has issued a "do not drive" warning for about 84,000 older-model vehicles because they carry recalled Takata-made airbags. The warning affects certain model year 2002-2006 Nissan Sentra ...
In November Stellantis urged an additional 276,000 car owners to stop driving their vehicles after three other crash deaths were tied to Takata air bag inflators. [9] In February 2023, Honda issued warnings to the owners of 8,200 Acura and Honda vehicles not to drive following a death caused by a faulty Takata air bag inflator.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said rupturing air bag inflators pose an "unreasonable risk of serious injury or death."
It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year ...