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What Are the 6 Ways an Airbag Can Injure You in a Crash? - GibsonSingleton Virginia Injury Attorneys · BSPE Legal Marketing Podcast

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  What Are the 6 Ways an Airbag Can Injure You in a Crash?
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  Airbags are designed to save your life, but the explosive force of deployment can cause serious and sometimes permanent injuries that many crash survivors never expect.
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  When an airbag deploys, it creates a pressure wave that can expose your ears to sound levels exceeding 160 decibels, damaging the inner ear and causing ringing, muffled hearing, or permanent hearing loss.
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  Your eyes face a separate danger because the expanding bag can strike them directly, scratching the cornea, damaging the retina, or fracturing the surrounding bones.
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  Some inflator systems also release alkaline byproducts that can chemically burn the eyes or skin on contact, adding a hazardous chemical threat on top of the physical impact.
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  If you are sitting too close to the airbag, the bag may reach your face before it fully inflates, generating enough force to fracture the thin bones around your eyes, nose, jaw, and teeth.
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  Facial fractures can cause swelling, severe pain, difficulty opening your mouth, and vision problems that may require surgery to correct.
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  The fabric of a deploying airbag can scrape exposed skin on your face, arms, and hands, causing friction burns and abrasions, while the heat of deployment can leave thermal burns as well.
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  The sudden impact of the airbag combined with the crash forces themselves can strain muscles and ligaments in the neck, cause whiplash, or damage the cervical vertebrae, discs, and spinal cord.
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  Symptoms like numbness, tingling, stiffness, and weakness can appear hours or even days after the collision, making early medical evaluation critically important.
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  A direct blow from a deploying airbag can bruise the chest, fracture ribs or the sternum, and in severe cases cause blunt trauma to the heart, lungs, liver, or spleen.
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  Internal bleeding can exist without any visible external wound, which is why unexplained pain, dizziness, or difficulty breathing after a crash always demands immediate medical attention.
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  Defective airbag inflators carry an even deadlier risk because a ruptured inflator can send sharp metal fragments into the passenger compartment at high speed, causing deep cuts, puncture wounds, and penetrating injuries to internal organs.
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  If you suspect a defective inflator, preserving the vehicle and airbag components before any repair is essential to protecting critical evidence in your case.
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  Virginia law gives most injured crash survivors only two years from the date of the accident to file a personal injury lawsuit under Va. Code 8.01-243(A), so acting quickly matters enormously.
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  At GibsonSingleton Virginia Injury Attorneys, attorney Ken Gibson and attorney John Singleton bring decades of combined legal experience to help injured drivers and passengers understand their rights and pursue the compensation they deserve.
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  This law firm investigates how the crash and airbag deployment caused your injuries and holds the responsible parties accountable on your behalf.
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  Contact GibsonSingleton Virginia Injury Attorneys, located at 4073 George Washington Memorial Hwy, Hayes, VA 23072, United States, by calling 804, 413, 6777 to schedule your free case evaluation today.