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Air Bags Overview
Home » Automobiles » Air Bags » Air Bags OverviewAir bags saved an estimated 1,200 lives in 2005 alone. However, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that tragically 99 children have been killed or injured by the force of a deploying air bag. In many cases, the children were riding in the front seat either in a rear facing child safety seat out of position or either unbuckled, or not wearing the shoulder portion of the safety belt. Air bags do their best job when everyone is buckled and children are properly restrained in the back seat.
An air bag is not a soft, billowy pillow. Rather, to work effectively, an air bag come out of the dashboard at rates of up to 200 miles per hour, which is faster than a blink of an eye. Drivers can eliminate any danger to children from a deploying air bag by placing them in properly restrained devices in the back seat. With or without an air bag, the back seat is the safest place for children to ride. As the number of vehicles equipped with air bags increases, the risk to children riding in the front seat will also increase.
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