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New air bags Sound to save lives

I HAVE to confess a secret
fear of air bags, those
automatically-inflating safe-
ty cushions that lurk in the
steering wheel hub of your
car.

Do air bags really work
when they're supposed to?
Will an air bag inflate ac-
cidentally if I run over a

particularly treacherous
pothole?
If i nudge someone's

bumper in the parking lot,

AutoMotion
_ Greg Wilson.

will the air bag burst forth
and pin me to my seat until
the Fire Department arrives
to extricate me? If I hit the
horn button too hard will it
punish me by smothering me
in a nylon bag?

I’m happy to report that
none of these things will ever
happen.

AIR BAGS are here to stay. Transport Canada statistics show that air bags reduce the front passenger's chance of fatality in a car accident by 30 per cent. In

combination with 2 lap aud shoulder seat bell air bags reduce the chanze of fatality by 50 per cent.

Air bags are safe, reliable,
and they’re here to stay.

Automobile manufactur-
ers have spent the last 10 to
15 years testing air bags in
reai life situations.

“Over the past several
years, Ford has put more
than 40,000 air bag-equ.pped
cars on the road,’’ says Ron
Bright, Ford of Canada’s
Director of Vehicle Safety.

**We estimate these vehicles
have travelled more than 800
million miles and have been
involved in 5,000 accidents,
including some 600 that were
severe enough to deploy the
air bag supplemental
restraint system.”’
Bright concludes, ‘Our
actual on-the-road  experi-
ence tells us that they deploy
them when they’re supposed

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Most air bag systems are
designed to deploy after a
frontal coilision of 19 km/h
or more. Air bags do not
deploy in side or rear im-
pacts, roll-overs or multiple
collisions. For this reason,
seat belts should be worn in
an air bag-equipped car.
Transport Canada
Statistics show that air bags

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teduce the front passenger's
chance of fatality in a car
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shoulder seat belt, air bags
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A collision typically takes
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“that an air bag does its job.
It inflates within 30 millise-

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