Should my airbag been deployed?

Question

Someone pulled straight out in front of me and I hit the car going about 35 mph. I totaled his 2007 Nissan Altima and did just a little bumper and grill damage to my vehicle. I drive a 2007 Dodge Nitro and my airbag didn't deploy. All his airbags came out but my didn't.

Answer 1

depends on how you are sitting in the seat. My daughter is short so she sits close to the steering wheel. She was in a car accident and her airbags did not deploy even tho her car was totaled. The airbag could have caused more injuries if deployed.  

Answer 2

Airbags are designed to deploy only when they might be needed to prevent serious injury. In order for airbags to be effective they must deploy early in a crash; in a frontal crash this typically occurs within the first 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds).

A vehicle's airbag control module relies on feedback from crash sensors to predict whether an event is severe enough to warrant an airbag deployment.

Answer 3

your car is in an advance stage of air bag safety, it know if it needs to deploy depending on the force of the impact. your car hit in the front, there is a crash sensor that detects the force of impact and can determine if air bag is necessary. on the altima I assume it was a side impact, the car does not know what to do with that so it automatically sends a signal for air bag.