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I was in a pretty bad accident, going about 55mph, and hit a focus that was in my lane stopped (not my fault). I tried stopping, leaving about 15ft of skid marks, front end went into the drivers door of the focus. the air bags did NOT deploy. By the time I hit them I know i had slowed down a bit but not that much. any one know at what speed they are to deploy at, where the sensors are and the fuses?

thanks,
Jon

 
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--> moved to tech

 
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I'm curious how you rear ended a car and it wasn't your fault. Not saying it was..but can you explain a little better?

 
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well if you take the bumper off, and look at the sensors, they will only deploy when the metal gets crumpled. I hit a deer going 40mph and that part didn't crumple at all. So thats why my air bags didn't go off.

 
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ok, i will have to check the sensors. and it wasn't a rear end.....
here's a diagram

 
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hehehe kinda like my diagram waay back when i got hit in the rear

 
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There's no set speed the airbags deploy at. Sometimes they'll go off when you bump a post in a parking lot, sometimes you can smash into another car and nothing will happen.

I had a pretty good cruncher in my '98 vic and the bags didn't deploy. I'm actually glad they didn't, I think they might have hurt me more if they went off. I was wearing my seatbelt and didn't faceplant into the steering wheel or anything, so it turned out okay.

You can check out the pics of my crunched car here.