How much does an airbag hurt?

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I've never been in such a serious car collision that an airbag came out but I was wondering how much it hurts. I heard from people that the force that the bag comes at you is really intense. However, you always hear of people walking out from a car even after the front of the car is all crumpled.

So I guess that while it hurts, it doesn't really break any of your bones and it just bruises you? Anyone experienced an airbag hitting them before?

Depends on the accident. When my boyfriend got T-boned, the airbag didn't deploy until after glass broke, and all the glass bounced right off the bag and hit him in his eyes and face. It also depends where the g-force is at, it can be pretty intense when there is already g-force hitting you, like when my boyfriend got T-boned, which was on his side.

If you're lucky it deploys at all, you might end up with whiplash or a broken nose. Bf said his nose bled from the bag, but wasn't broken, though he has some pretty hardy bones.

I personally never been in an accident where the airbags deploy either.

Yeah it's been awhile. 3 weeks ago it happened. They drugged him up and sent him home. Couldn't drive, but don't have a car to drive anyways. Over the course of two weeks, his pain was lifted, but the nose was that day. He had to have eye drops too for a week. They had to scrape his eye to get the glass shards out.

so basically hit yourself in face and thats what its like

Airbags are the reason you're not supposed to put baby capsules in the front seat. I'm guessing the airbag may prove injurious to the baby otherwise.

I never was in a wreck but I imagine it feels pretty good if you have airbags like Quagmire from Family Guy I couldn't find the clip with eglish audio

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Not as much as being flung up in the air into the top right of the car chasis. Having your knee's slam into the dashboard from a 60mph collision.The airbag helped when i ended up going down into a ditch and smothering my torso as i feel down from the corner. Well at least it worked, wasn't much help i could have done with it under the dashboard.

Christ that hurt my knee's. I didn't feel it for 20 minutes till the adrenalin of the near death experiance calmed me down. During which time I had helped a witnesses calm down from hyperventalenting and was walking around like nothing happened. Suddenly the pain hit me and i had to stop walking. Lucky escape.

They cause facial bruising, which, while painful, is nothing compared to having the steering shaft embedded in your chest.

Wow! O_O I've gotten into two wrecks that were my fault. I'm lucky!

I saw a petite teen girl with a broken nose from her air bag, but it was probably because she had to move her seat forward to reach the pedals. You are supposed to be at least 18 inches away from your steering wheel. That just isn't possible for some people. I also saw some burns/abrasions on people along their inner arms where they were holding the wheel and the bag scraped along the inside of the arms. It comes out so fast it can make a friction burn. I have been lucky in that none of my wrecks have been serious enough to deploy the back. I was in a few bad ones in my childhood, but we didnt have the bags way back then.

On the inside of the sun flap it usually warns you not to have children in the front seat because the bags can actually kill small children. My Honda says that! I started letting my daughter ride up front when she got past 5 feet because she can push the seat back and still wear the seat belt properly. She isn't 12 yet but she looks it, and is bigger than most 12 year-olds, so I don't think it is unsafe for her now.

This doesn't look safe for a airbag.

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I imagine that they must deliver a bit of a blow.

I was in a low-speed collision a couple years ago, and fortunately unharmed. The airbag deployed and thrust my left hand into the driver side window with such force that the window actually cracked and broke free of the frame before shattering on the ground, and left a mild friction burn on my right wrist.

Of course there's also the Mythbusters episode with the airbag experiments, and while unlikely, it's possible for an airbag to break and almost sever a person's thumbs.

I've (thankfully) never been in a collision with air bags, but I'm probably about as afraid of them, as I am afraid of getting hurt in an accident itself. I have seen many accidents happen in front of me with air bags, and it is an explosion just like a bomb. It blows out the windshield and the side windows sometimes. It also fills the car with burning chemical smoke, which caused me to get a cough that lasted a week after I breathed it when helping somebody out of an accident.

But logically, I think they're good to have, as they probably INCREASE your likelihood to get a minor to moderate injury, but DECREASE the risk of severe injury or fatality. So I guess that's an OK deal. The only thing that would make me remove them, would be if I had uncontrolled mice in the area where I park, which causes the air bags to go off for no reason at any time when the mice have chewed the wiring.

Charles

I was in a t-bone collision at 55mph.... t-boned a driver that did not see me around another vehicle and turned in from of me. Luckily survived with no broken bones, but managed to bang my knee on the dashboard and sprained my wrist on the gear shifter. The other guy got a bunch of broken ribs...

All airbags deployed, and it felt like a hot pillow. FWIW, it really depends on the car you are driving. My civic was an '08 and apparently according to the data that iihs collected on that model, it was a safe car. The g's you can experience from hitting an airbag (or not hitting an airbag and hitting the steering wheel instead!! !) can be from almost immeasurable to being enough to cause you to black out. I was conscious the whole time. I think I had a wicked bruise from the seatbelt though!