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If the right A pillar sustained damaged then the curtain airbags should have been deployed. That's messed up. Contact Volvo, then call your insurance company and let them examine the car before Volvo gets to touch it. It's highly important that you don't let volvo touch it.

Hey Farouk, so sorry to hear about your parents accident.

As for the the airbags not deploying from what I can read from your description of the accident then they performed exactly as they're designed to... rest assured Volvo still makes one of the very safest cars in an impact or collision.

Accelerometers that measure the rate of deceleration are designed into the sub-frame close to where crumples zones are located. Only if the nature (i.e. location) and force of the impact are measured within pre-programmed tolerances will the airbags deploy.

In this event, the airbags not deploying probably averted a much more serious accident.

I was impressed by the Structural INTegrity of the car, i expected much worse, and my mom did tell me while the accident happened, the seatbelt pushed here right backwards,....But thats still no excuse for the airbags not 2 deploy...

Just be happy your parents are safe! If they have nothing then the car did its job very well, even if the Airbags didn't deploy!

Concerning this question of Airbags, if you're really concerned you should hire an expert to analyze the crash (surely your insurance will do so anyway) and see if the Airbags had to pop.

Looks like a big crash, but if it's not really frontal but side-frontal (hit in the front corner) then the Airbag won't deploy.






And if the cow absorbed a lot of energy by beeing blasted away, maybe the deceleration of the car was not hard enough to make the airbags deploy.

The front side bumper and headlight was shredded....i would assume that its within Airbag deployment......

Poor cow.......

The pillar was bent inwards...and the side door was also bent inwards slightly and heavily scratched...the side airbags should hav deployed even though the impact was not straight on the side...

At what velocity did the impact occur?

This really doesn't surprise me. Volvo are in general not very safe cars. Volvo recall close to 120 000 car EVERY single year. They always have glitches in production and reliability.

No, this is incorrect. The curtain and side airbags are designed to deploy in a severe side impact to prevent head, neck and shoulder injuries. The Volvo performed correctly in my opinion...

Remember people, an airbag deploys at over 200 km/h. The last thing you want is that thing blowing up in your face while the car is still moving! Airbags ought not to deploy if they're not needed to.

The bumper, bonnet and A-pillar performed the exact type of protection that was needed for this kind of impact. This is my opinion in my capacity of driving instructor and given my limited understanding that your parents only suffered minor injuries. Just ten years ago a Kudu coming through the windscreen of an employee of the company I worked for killed the front occupants.

The cow,or should i say bull was still alive,even after losing its ass and 1 of its legs, it had 2 be shot by one of the Police Officers on the scene.....