Air Bags:Frontal

Date Announced
Vehicles Affected
NHTSA Campaign #
PE03002
Summary
Ford Motor Company has identified 260 reports alleging frontal air bag non-deployment for any (severity) frontal or near-frontal crash on model year 2000-2001 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable vehicles.additional crash reports are contained in NHTSA's fatality analysis reporting system (FARS) database.the single ODI report listed in the report summary is NHTSA's special crash investigation's case no. CA00-020 that involved a high-speed crash non-deployment involving a driver fatality and front passenger injury.this preliminary evaluation has been upgraded to an engineering analysis (EA03-010) and ODI will collect additional information on certain crash reports and conduct further study of this issue.
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