Federal agency to keep airbag regulations
February 6, 2008 06:15

The Kansas City Star Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:49 PM PST. A new federal safety study, in response to stories last fall in The Kansas City Star, found that hundreds of people died in traffic accidents in which their front airbags inexplicably did not deploy.

According to a new federal safety study, 360 people died unnecessarily in traffic accidents in which their front airbags inexplicably did not deploy. But true to form under the Bush administration, safety is secondary to corporate profit, and federal officials said they do not think the number of deaths is significant enough to change airbag regulations. "It doesn’t look to be a major national epidemic," according to Rae Tyson of NHTSA.