mhan00
Active Member
Just a sore chest and then the ride to the hospital for surgery for a burst appendicts, that has been no fun and the pain was incredible. Enough that I passed out. And it went from an annoying stomach pain to full blown incapacitating pain in under a minute
A sore chest would likely be the least of your worries (I’m assuming the burst appendix wasn’t a result of your accident but rather the cause) if your airbags had been needed and didn’t deploy. As others have posted, airbags are extremely dangerous in and of themselves. Things happen so quickly in a violent accident that they don’t have time to slowly inflate to provide a soft surface to gently impact against; they essentially have to explode into existence and can seriously injure or even kill people. They’re there to prevent probable death/extremely serious injury from impacting against hard, immovable surfaces/instruments in the car by providing a more malleable surface to impact against, and reduce probable death to injury/severe pain.