Nov 29 - Over the past ten years, air bags have certainly saved lives, but safety experts charge they are not as safe as they should be and that government safety standards put people, especially children at risk. The car flipped. The air bag deployed at 200 miles per hour. She was probably forward a bit toward the steering wheel and it slammed her in the face and broke her neck.
Air bags save thousands of lives.
Thousands of others were seriously injured. Now the former director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says 70 million cars are at risk, because of poorly designed air bags, on cars built between 1990 and 1997. The safest air bags are on Honda Accords and Mercedes Benze. But there are no standards. Turley says computerized smart airbags are available, and should be required.