Owner-reported complaints naming the airbag system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the air-bag system — deployment behaviour, inflators, sensors and warning lights. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1997 Chevrolet Astro submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 17 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
WHILE PULLING INTO A PARKING LOT AT APPROXIMATELY 5 MPH FRONT PASSENGER AIR BAG SUDDENLY DEPLOYED, CAUSING MINOR INJURIES TO HIS 10 YEAR OLD SON, BURNS ON LEGS AND BUSTED LIP FROM CONTACT WITH AIR BAG - ALSO, RINGING OF EARS FROM DEPLOYMENT. INSURANCE COMPANY AND MANUFACTURER ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THIS ISSUE. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/ATTACHMENTS. *AK
WHILE STOPPED I WAS REAR ENDED, FRONT END OF MY CAR IS DESTROYED. AIR BAG SHOULD HAVE DEPLOYED. *AK
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION. UPON IMPACT AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY, RESULTING IN MINOR INJURIES. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.*AK
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT IN WHICH AIR BAGS EXPERIENCED NO DEPLOYMENT, 2 PEOPLE WERE INJURED DUE TO THE AIRBAGS NOT WORKING PROPERLY. *SLC
WHILE DRIVING ABOUT 40 MPH STRUCK ANOTHER VEHICLE IN A FRONTAL COLLISION. UPON IMPACT, AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK *ML
WHILE DRIVING ON LOCAL ROAD , TRAVELING 40-45MPH, TWO VEHICLES UP AND AHEAD WERE CROSSING THE INTERSECTION. CONSUMER REALIZING THAT THERE WERE CAMERAS AND LIGHT TURNED YELLOW, SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES, AND A PICKUP TRUCK BEHIND REARENDED HER. CONSUMER APPLIED BRAKES, AND THEY FAILED. ALSO, UPON IMPACT, NEITHER AIRBAG DEPLOYED. *AK
AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY UPON IMPACT WITH OTHER VEHICLE. *AK
VEHICLE WAS HIT ON DRIVER'S SIDE WHILE DRIVING 40MPH, AND THEN RAN HEAD-ON INTO A BRICK WALL. UPON IMPACT, NEITHER DRIVER'S SIDE NOR PASSENGER'S SIDE AIRBAGS DEPLOYED. ALSO, LEFT REAR SEAT BELT DISENGAGED, LEAVING OCCUPANT UNPROTECTED DURING CRASH. DEALER HAS NOT SEEN VEHICLE. *AK
AIR BAGS DID NOT COME OUT ,THE VAN WAS TRAVLEING AT 50MPH ,WITH A FRONT END COLLISION.
WAS TRAVELING 40MPH WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE CUT IN FRONT & HAD NO TAIL LIGHTS. APPLIED BRAKES TO AVOID HITTING VEHICLE. HAD PUMPED BRAKES, BUT VEHICLE HAD SLID & REARENDED THE OTHER VEHICLE DUE TO LACK OF BRAKES. UPON IMPACT WITH OTHER VEHICLE, AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. *AK
WHILE DIRIVNG 25 MPH HAD A FRONTAL IMPACT, AND DRIVER'S/PASSENGER'S AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY, WHICH DID NOT PROTECT THE OCCUPANT IN THIS CRASH. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK
WHILE DRIVING AT 45 MPH APPLIED BRAKES, NO BRAKES, FRONTAL IMPACT OCCURRED AND NEITHER AIRBAG DEPLOYED. DEALER CONTACTED AND IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM. CONDITION OF VEHICLE NOT DETERMINED. PROBLEM STILL EXISTS. PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A HEAD-ON COLLSION AT 55 MPH. UPON IMPACT, BOTH AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. MANUFACTURER WAS E-MAILED. *AK. CONSUMER WAS INFORMED BY CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP THAT UNLESS THE VEHICLE IS HIT JUST RIGHT THE AIRBAGS WILL NOT DEPLOY.*JB
FALSE DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S/PASSENGER'S AIR BAGS WHILE VEHICLE WAS PARKED.*AK
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING AT 25 MPH ON A WET ROAD CONDITIONS WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE APPROACHED AND THERE WAS A HEAD-ON COLLISION. CONSUMER'S AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. DEALER WAS NOTIFIED AND INFORMED CONSUMER THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT HIT PROPERLY. ALSO CONSUMER WILL SEND IN COPIES OF PICTURES TAKEN OF ACCIDENT.538136 DUP 0F 825414; POSTED ON 09-07-1999. *AK
NON-DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S/PASSENGER'S AIR BAGS DURING HEAD-ON COLLISION RESULTED IN DRIVER SUSTAINING KNEE AND BACK INJURIES. SON, WHO WAS IN PASSENGER'S SEAT, SUFFERED PERMANENT JAW INJURY.
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING ON NORMAL ROAD CONDITION AT 30 MPH, WHEN VEHICLE HIT AN UNSEEN POTHOLE, CAUSING BOTH AIR BAGS TO DEPLOY. DEALER INSPECTED THE VEHICLE AND INFORMED CONSUMER THAT IT WAS A NORMAL CONDITION FOR THE AIR BAGS TO DEPLOY. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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