10.0
really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 3 / 0
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 5 / 0
- Average Mileage:
- 2,667 miles
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On 5/17/05 while on the way to work an accident occurred. The air bags did not deploy. The vehicle is equipped with passenger and driver air bags. The air bag light was not on. The air bag light has never came on. There were no recalls on the vehicle as far as the owner knows. The vehicle was traveling about 50 mph while on highway. There was a vehicle in front of the owner's car who stopped completely and then owner hit the other vehicle in the rear end. The impact was frontal to the owner's vehicle. There were no previous problems with the vehicle. There were injuries. There were injuries to the passenger's chest, neck and back. There was a police report filed. The vehicle manufacturer has not been contacted. The vehicle was a total loss. The occupants were wearing seat belts.
- Waterloo, NY, USA
On June 8, 2002 I was driving down a major hwy in Louisiana. I was driving 70 miles per hour which was the posted speed limit. A car clipped my front end and caused me to go off the highway into the grass. I don't know if my brakes were a problem because they are anti-lock so I'm not sure if this was suppose to happen along with the airbags but when I applied the brakes the van would not stop. I ended up back on the freeway across traffic still going in the same direction, and hit a metal guardrail head on that was located beside the concrete wall that holds up the bridge. The van then bounced off the wall, hit it again then turned around. This is all that I can remember. When my van hit the guard rail my head hit the steering wheel. The airbags on either side did not deploy. My husband hit the dashboard on the passenger side. I have pictures from the crash where the airbags did not even attempt to deploy, I spoke with robert smith at the dealership where the van was towed. He stated that by looking at the van because it has been declared a total loss he'd wished the airbags had deployed, but luckily we all walked away from the crash. He did state that there are several sensors and that they all have to register and hit has to be a head on crash. My comment was going 70 miles per hour and hitting a metal guard rail head on, how much head on do you need?
- Carrollton, TX, USA
- Roswell, GA, USA