{"@context":{"@vocab":"https://schema.org/"},"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/nhtsa/complaints/check?make=AIRBAG","name":"AIRBAG","_source":{"data_provider":"AI Analytics","data_provider_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","primary_source":"https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/","generated_at":"2026-09-23T09:58:34.625Z"},"summary":{"total_complaints":100,"deaths":2,"injured":126,"fires":1},"top_components":[{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","n":61},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","n":11},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL","n":7},{"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","n":6},{"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL","n":3},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER","n":2},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL","n":2},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS","n":2},{"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY","n":2},{"component_desc":"AIR BAGS","n":2}],"recent_complaints":[{"cmplid":"1538684","date_received":"2019-02-11","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL:WRECKER AND WHEEL LIFT DEVICES","description":"I WAS INVOLVED IN A CAR ACCIDENT 02/28/2018 TAKATA RECALL AIR BAGS. I SUSTAINED MULTIPLE INJURIES WHERE MY AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY 75MPH HEAD FRONTAL. I HAVE TRIED MULTIPLE TIME TO GET HELP FROM LEGAL ATTY. AND NO ONE WILL HELP ME. INSTEAD I SET HERE DAY BY DAY CANNOT EVEN OUT ON MY OWN SHOES LET ALONE TIE THEM. WHY CANT AN ATTY CALL AND HELP ME. I FEEL HAD MY AIR BAGS DEPLOYED I WOULDN'T BE IN THIS BAD IF SHAPE. COMPLAINT # 11176178","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1538684"},{"cmplid":"1514069","date_received":"2018-11-09","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":3,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"FORD AIRBAGS ACCIDENT !","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1514069"},{"cmplid":"1479487","date_received":"2018-06-30","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":3,"fire":0,"crash":0,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"NO AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT AFTER COLLISION WITH TOYOTA. IMPACT OF COLLISION  AND FAULTY AIRBAGS ARE EVIDENT  WHEN THE PERSON AT FAULT AIRBAGS DEPLOYED     2011 KIA FORTE      MVA 4/12/2018 WHERE A GUY FAILED TO STOP AT STOP SIGNED AND PULLED ONTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC OF FOUR LANES TOTAL WITH ALL TRAFFIC GOING ONE WAY ONLY. SPEED ON STREET IS ESTIMATED 40 TO 50 ESTIMATE ONLY  AS I DO NOT RECALL THE EXACT SPEED.. THE PERSON AT FAULT ENTERED THE ROAD WHICH HE HAD TO PASS THREE LANES UNTIL HE MADE IT TO THE LAST OR FURTHERED LANE FROM WHERE HE ENTERED INTO ON COMING TRAFFIC AND WAS A FAULT AS CONFIRMED BY POLICE REPORT AFTER SPEAKING WITH WITNESSES,  THE PERSON AT FAULT IN MYSELF. I ATTEMPTED TO BREAK WHEN I SEEN THE FRONT  THE CAR ENTERING INTO MY PATH/LANE. UNABLE TO AVOID THE COLLISION AS ALL THREE LANE WHICH HE CROSSED ALL HAD TRAFFIC TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS ME ON THIS ONE WAY STREET. I COULDN'T HELPED TO AVOID HITTING THE MID AND BACK DOOR OF HIS TOYOTA VS SWERVING  INTO THE OTHER LANES AND CREATING A PILE UP SITUATION . THE IMPACT WAS NOTHING LESS THAN HARD AND BAD. SO MUCH SO, I WAS THROWN FORWARD TO WHICH THE SEATBELTS STOPPED ME AT FIRST BUT THEN THE FAULTY  SEATBELT  REALEASED  AND I INJURED MY LEFT WRIST, SPRAINED AFTER TRYING TO CATCH MYSELF. MY KNEE HIT THE SIDE DASHBOARD AREA. OF COURSE,  RIGHT SHOULDER AFTER MY LEFT HAND SLIPPED OFF STEERING AND HIT MY SHOULDER ON STEERING WHEEL. NO SEATBELT DEPLOYMENT  FROM WHEEL OR SIDES FROM IMPACT AND NO WHEEL AIRBAG DEPLOYMEN","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1479487"},{"cmplid":"1474041","date_received":"2018-06-07","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"THE AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY WHEN I WAS HIT FROM BEHIND.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1474041"},{"cmplid":"1474042","date_received":"2018-06-07","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL","description":"THE AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY WHEN I WAS HIT FROM BEHIND.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1474042"},{"cmplid":"1434676","date_received":"2017-12-22","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"PONTIAC G6 MY DAUGHTER WRECKED AIR BAGS NEVER WENT OFF. SHE TOTALLED THE CAR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1434676"},{"cmplid":"1434677","date_received":"2017-12-22","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL","description":"PONTIAC G6 MY DAUGHTER WRECKED AIR BAGS NEVER WENT OFF. SHE TOTALLED THE CAR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1434677"},{"cmplid":"1385684","date_received":"2017-06-19","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"MY AIR BAG ON THE DRIVER SIDE NEVER DEPLOY AND I HAVE BEEN HIT 2 TIMES WITHIN THE LAST YEAR .","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1385684"},{"cmplid":"1369182","date_received":"2017-04-06","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"ON MARCH 28,2017 I WAS INVOLVED IN AN 2 VEHICLE CAR ACCIDENT.  WHERE A 2006 CHEVY TRUCK GOING NORTH BOUND MAKING AN ILLEGAL  LEFTHAND TURN ONTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC IN AN INTERSECTION IN CALIFORNIA FALLING TO YIELD  CAUSING A COLLISION BETWEEN MY CAR A 2006 HYUNDAI TUSCON 5 SPEED MANUAL TRANSMISSION WAS HIT BY THE TRUCK AS I I WAS CROSSING INTO THE INTERSECTION  GOING SOUTH BOUND ON A GREEN LIGHT RIGHT OF WAY.THE TRUCK WAS WAITING TO MAKE A LEFTHAND TURN AT THE INTERSECTION IN THE LEFTHAND TURNING LANE WHEN HE CUT -OUT IN FRONT OF ME GIVING ME ONLY SECONDS TO REACT TO AVOID THE CRASH.I SAW HIM COME INTO THE INTERSECTION IN AN ACCELERATED SPEED AS TO BEAT ME TO MAKE HIS LEFT TURN ,I SLAMMED ON MY BRAKES AS HE MADE HIS LEFT TURN AND I SLAMMED INTO THE PASSENGERSIDE OF THE FRONT FENDER OF THE TRUCK HEADON BENDING THE FRONT BODY FRAME AND DESTROYING THE FRONT END OF MY HYUNDAI TUSCON 2006  W/5SPEED TRANS.MY AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY IN THE ACCIDENT . MY HYUNDAI WAS CONSIDERED A TOTAL LOSS BY THE CAR  INSURANCE COMPANY . BY LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS YOU CAN SEE HOW DEVASTATING THE IMPACT WAS.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1369182"},{"cmplid":"1369183","date_received":"2017-04-06","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL","description":"ON MARCH 28,2017 I WAS INVOLVED IN AN 2 VEHICLE CAR ACCIDENT.  WHERE A 2006 CHEVY TRUCK GOING NORTH BOUND MAKING AN ILLEGAL  LEFTHAND TURN ONTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC IN AN INTERSECTION IN CALIFORNIA FALLING TO YIELD  CAUSING A COLLISION BETWEEN MY CAR A 2006 HYUNDAI TUSCON 5 SPEED MANUAL TRANSMISSION WAS HIT BY THE TRUCK AS I I WAS CROSSING INTO THE INTERSECTION  GOING SOUTH BOUND ON A GREEN LIGHT RIGHT OF WAY.THE TRUCK WAS WAITING TO MAKE A LEFTHAND TURN AT THE INTERSECTION IN THE LEFTHAND TURNING LANE WHEN HE CUT -OUT IN FRONT OF ME GIVING ME ONLY SECONDS TO REACT TO AVOID THE CRASH.I SAW HIM COME INTO THE INTERSECTION IN AN ACCELERATED SPEED AS TO BEAT ME TO MAKE HIS LEFT TURN ,I SLAMMED ON MY BRAKES AS HE MADE HIS LEFT TURN AND I SLAMMED INTO THE PASSENGERSIDE OF THE FRONT FENDER OF THE TRUCK HEADON BENDING THE FRONT BODY FRAME AND DESTROYING THE FRONT END OF MY HYUNDAI TUSCON 2006  W/5SPEED TRANS.MY AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY IN THE ACCIDENT . MY HYUNDAI WAS CONSIDERED A TOTAL LOSS BY THE CAR  INSURANCE COMPANY . BY LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS YOU CAN SEE HOW DEVASTATING THE IMPACT WAS.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1369183"},{"cmplid":"1298742","date_received":"2016-07-16","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"2003 SATURN ION: VEHICLE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY, DURING OR AFTER SERIOUS, FRONT-END COLLISION, CAUSING INJURIES.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1298742"},{"cmplid":"1298743","date_received":"2016-07-16","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"2003 SATURN ION: VEHICLE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY, DURING OR AFTER SERIOUS, FRONT-END COLLISION, CAUSING INJURIES.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1298743"},{"cmplid":"1275813","date_received":"2016-04-15","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE","description":"MODEL BUICK, YEAR 2003 TYPE RENDEZVOUS  AND UNABLE TYPE ABOVE. NO REPAIRS PRIOR EXCEPT REPAIR ON ACCIDENT IN ARLINGTON TX EARLY 2005 NO RECEIPTS FIX  G M C AUTO REPAIR OFF COOPER RD.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1275813"},{"cmplid":"1178512","date_received":"2015-04-28","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY IN HEAD ON CRASH AT 45 50 MPH IN MY 2013 DODGE DURANGO.  *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1178512"},{"cmplid":"1170900","date_received":"2015-04-01","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL","description":"MY VEHICLE A FORD FOCUS 2009 BECAUSE OF POOR VISIBILITY WENT OFF THE ROAD TRAVELING NORTH ON HWY 76 (SAN DIEGO COUNTY, PALOMAR MT. AREA). THE CAR WENT OFF THE ROAD AT THE END OF HWY 76 AT HWY 79 IN THE MT. PALOMAR AREA NEAR LAKE HENSHAW. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY DESPITE THE FRONT END OF THE CAR BEING SEVERELY DAMAGED.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1170900"},{"cmplid":"1155113","date_received":"2015-02-06","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"IN 2003 I WAS IN A ACCIDENT,  IT WAS RAINING AND MY CAR LOST CONTROL, I WENT FROM THE FAST LANE TO THE SLOW LANE IN CIRCLES, FINALLY WHEN MY CAR STOPPED MY FOREHEAD HIT THE WINDSHIELD AND CRACKED THE WINDSHIELD . MY AIRBAGS NEVER DEPLOYED.","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1155113"},{"cmplid":"1149213","date_received":"2015-01-19","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A ACCIDENT ON 1/1/2015 AND WAS HIT ON THE LEFT FRONT OF VEHICLE AND THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER SIDE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. I REQUEST THAT THIS BE INVESTIGATED AS TO WHY THAT THEY DID NOT DEPLOY.  *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1149213"},{"cmplid":"1123042","date_received":"2014-10-24","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":2,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT","description":"IN 2008 I WAS DRIVING MY 2003 HONDA ACCORD.  I HAD A TERRIBLE FRONT IN CRASH WITH ANOTHER CAR. MY FRONT END WAS CRUSHED AND MY FRONT PASSENGER HEAD CRACKED THE WINDSHIELD.  MY PASSENGER AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY.  EVERY ONE I CALLED GAVE ME THE RUN AROUND. I DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO CONTACT. MY REPAIRS COST ME $3800.00. WE DIDN'T HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE SO WE DECLINED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.  THE BODY SHOP THAT REPAIRED MY CAR SAID THE AIRBAG SHOULD HAVE DEPLOYED.  *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1123042"},{"cmplid":"1073890","date_received":"2014-06-10","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":1,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER","description":"CAR ACCIDENT APRIL 14, 2014 AIR BAGS ON LEFT AIDE OF CAR DID NOT DEPLOY AND NOW I'M SUFFERING FROM MAJOR PERMANITE HEAD INJURIES:  A)PARESTHESIA  B)CERVICALGIA  C)CONCUSSION -  MRI: CERVICAL SPINE, CONCUSSION ON TOP OF A CONCUSSION WHICH HAS LEAD TO RETRAINING THE BRAIN. SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS THAT I'M GOING TO HAVE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I AM UNABLE TO WORK IN MY FIELD. IF THE AIR BAGS WOULD HAVE GONE OFF, I WOULD NOT BE GOING THROUGH THE DEPRESSION AND TREATMEANTS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE UNTIL IT HOPEFULLY GETS BETTER.  (HYUNDAI ELANTRA) IT WAS A RENTAL CAR EVEN!    *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1073890"},{"cmplid":"1015290","date_received":"2013-10-12","make":"AIRBAG","model":"SWITCH","model_year":null,"deaths":0,"injured":0,"fire":0,"crash":1,"component_desc":"AIR BAGS","description":"THE FAILURE : SAFETY AIR BAGS WERE NOT DEPLOYED AT THE MOMENT OF ACCIDENT.  NIGHT TIME AFTER 11:00PM. WILD DEER JUMPED FROM DARKNESS OF THE CORN PLANTS ON THE HOOD OF MY CAR. UNEXPECTEDLY FIRST JUMP FROM THE RIGHT FRONT FENDER , THE DEER COMPLETED BY SECOND JUMP INTO DARKNESS OF RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD. MY CAR HAS TOTAL LOSS.   I WANT A FAIR INVESTIGATION FROM VOLKSWAGEN MANUFACTURE ABOUT THE AIR BAGS DEFECTS. OUR LIVES WERE UNDER DANGEROUS SITUATION. PLEASE, HELP US.  *TR","canonical_url":"https://api.ai-analytics.org/vehicle-complaint/1015290"}]}