Kurt Ullman wrote:

In article ,
"Pete C." wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:

In article ,
"Pete C." wrote:

Nobody has ever been killed in an accident caused by a seat belt, the
same is very much not true for airbags.

Actually that is not true. There have been a number of people (I had
one personal experience when I was working on an ambulance) where the
chest belt decapitated a rather dimunitive adult. This is the main
reason that car seats and boosters are mandated. To protect the children
(in this case from the gov't.)

You misread what I said "Nobody has ever been killed in an accident
*caused* by a seat belt". Note the causation, seat belts do not cause
accidents, airbags do and this has been documented.

Not, I read it fine, I just didn't put that fine a point on it. I don't
know of a time when the air bag deployed on its own that killed someone.

There are many documented cases and several recalls for improper air bag
deployment. I'm not sure if there is an officially documented improper
airbag deployment caused death, however I'm sure there are many
accidents where the occupants were killed and no further investigation
was done where the airbags were the initiator of the accident.