BULLARD, ALTHEA ANN City/State: ST GEORGE / UT PCF Number: 175097 . Arrest Date: 01:09:19 01/29/18 Agency: Washington County Sheriff RELEASED FROM CUSTODY
How fast do you need to be going when you hit something for your air bags to deploy? The crash forces are equivalent to a head-on collision with an immovable barrier... How fast do you have to be going for the air bags to go off? Air bags are set to deploy when you hit something at a mild 8-14 miles per hour... How fast do you have to be going for the air bags to deploy in a car? You have to be in a collision that is at least 10 mph for the airbags to deploy in...
What an airbag wants to do is to slow the passenger's speed to zero with little or no damage. The constraints that it has to work within are huge. The airbag has the space between the passenger and the steering wheel or dashboard and a fraction of a second to work with.