LAST AUTO NEWS – ONE IN FIVE FATAL ACCIDENTS INVOLVES A MISSING AIRBAG
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Autoblog reports, “The National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration (NHTSA) is advertisement that 1 in every 5 baleful accidents involves a car with a missing airbag. The abstraction looked at 1,446 baleful accidents amid 2001 and 2006 and begin 255 instances – about 18 percent – of cars that were defective airbags because they had not been replaced afterward an accident. In addition, the bureau begin crashes area airbags had been break installed and appropriately bootless to deploy.” Improper accession may be a amount of inept adjustment work, but in some cases, something added adverse may be at play. “NHTSA says abounding of the cases are fraud..
An NHTSA actuality area on airbag artifice notes, “Insurance industry statistics appearance that about 50,000 airbags are baseborn anniversary year, consistent in an anniversary accident of added than $50 actor to car owners and their insurers. Airbags accept bound become a primary accent on the atramentous bazaar for baseborn car parts. A new airbag, which retails for about $1,000 from a car dealer, costs amid $50 – $200 on the atramentous market.”
So how can drivers ensure the assurance of their own airbags? The NHTSA recommends that consumers “Use a acclaimed auto blow adjustment boutique that employs ASE-certified mechanics,” apprehend invoices anxiously to ensure the boutique purchased the airbag from a manufacturer, and “If possible, audit the airbag above-mentioned to installation. If new, it should be packaged in a closed alembic from the manufacturer.”
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