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Originally Posted by Ru_Nuts
Though the H2 is engineered to prevent rollovers they aren't bullet proof.
My dearest friend's son was traveling about 65 mph on a large overpass in Houston around 2:30 am last Saturday morning when his '06 H2 was struck in the left rear tire area by a drunk driver that was approaching from behind at a high rate of speed. It was basically a classic take out maneuver.
The H2 began to shift the rear end to the right as he attempted to correct it by turning into the spin his H2 went airborn & flipped/rolled onto the drivers side skidding another 100 yards into the guardrail. He was looking out the sun roof off the edge of the overpass at a 50 ft drop.
He survived but now has a possible life changing injury from a torn rotor cuff. (He's a college student on baseball scholarship as a pitcher.)
No air bags deployed which has me wondering what it takes or if they failed in some way.
Does anyone know what triggers them or when the air bags should deploy?
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I am sorry to hear about your friend. Sounds like it turned out much better than it could have though!
I have no illusions that an H2 will not roll over. I am only refering to offroading incidents. As far as airbags, I have responded to some pretty good collisions where they did not deploy. I think they require impact, or g-forces, in specific directions to activate specific bags. For example, a straight head on collision wont likely deploy side airbags. Also, based on my experience investgatiing collisions, it seems to take a pretty significant impact to deploy them. Rolling onto it's side probably did not have enough impact force. It looks like it rolled to its side and then slid. Rolling onto its side will not generate the same force that a 3-5000 lb vehicle would have in say a T-bone collision.