> 2. Air bags are designed to work with seat belts, not replace them
but accurate regarding the effects of not wearing one:
> If you don’t wear your seat belt, you could be thrown into a rapidly opening frontal air bag. Such force could injure or even kill you.
Quite a few injuries in low speed crashes are _caused_ by air bag deployment even when you are wearing your seat belt.[1]
This is not to detract from the fact that in high speed or high force crashes, the airbag may be the thing that lets you survive ... assuming you are wearing a seatbelt.
> 2. Air bags are designed to work with seat belts, not replace them
but accurate regarding the effects of not wearing one:
> If you don’t wear your seat belt, you could be thrown into a rapidly opening frontal air bag. Such force could injure or even kill you.
Quite a few injuries in low speed crashes are _caused_ by air bag deployment even when you are wearing your seat belt.[1]
This is not to detract from the fact that in high speed or high force crashes, the airbag may be the thing that lets you survive ... assuming you are wearing a seatbelt.
Also, interesting photo in this article[2].
[1]: https://emj.bmj.com/content/19/6/490
[2]: https://cei.org/news_releases/if-auto-safety-defects-are-cri...