![]() ![]() I hope you and your son continue to heal and all the car stuff works out for you. With all this being said, it is only my opinion. They are quite violent when they deploy and if your body is not in a forward position in front of them as engineered, they could cause more harm hitting you in the wrong position.īoth cars shows great damage and what we would call in our medical terms on scene as “mechanism of injury” and in your case it would be high (injury of occupants based on the cars condition) They are designed that way as to not add more injury to the occupants. ![]() The reason the airbags did not go off is because it was not a true frontal collision as the airbag sensors are placed only for that type of collision. It appears you may have reacted and swerved a little at the last moment causing your car to have more of a "side swipe" collision. ![]() again it is an opinion only, as I was not at the scene.įrom looking at all the pictures you posted it seems you did not have a true “t bone collision” which in your case (your car) would have been in a “head on collision” into the side of the other car. This is only my opinion, and I have it from being in the paid fire service for 21 years retiring last year as a Lieutenant. I feel I should now with so many other members wondering if their airbags will work. I was going to mention in my post yesterday, my opinion, on why I did not think the airbags in your car should have deployed in that collision. My baby!Ĭlick to expand.Again I am glad you and your son are ok! Here is a link to the photos I have of the car. They popped the roof, shoved a board under my butt and lifted me straight up and out. The firemen on the scene were really good getting me out of the car since I was hurting so much. We both oddly enough, injured one knee each. Extensive bruising, neck, back, knee issues. I am starting physical therapy and my 12 yo son is seeing a chiropractor to start working out some of the injuries. I have also notified Saturn Customer Assistance Center and actually received a phone call back from a very nice man who wanted information on who my doctor is, what hospital was I taken to, what injuries did I sustain? No questions like, how many miles on your car, did you hit square or angled, etc.Īt this point I am at odds with my insurance company since I woudl think anyone needing to see this safety issue woudl want to see the car intact, and the Insurance company wants to start ripping things off it to determine if it is totalled or what the cost of repair should be. I was driving south on RT2 in Maryland and heard my son yell 'oh my god' as I saw a flash through my windshield just before I impacted the other car's passenger side.ĭamage to the front is pretty extensive, but the biggest surprise to me was, THE AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY! After reading through the NHTSA web site I saw quite a few listings for the 2007 Sky not deploying in a front end crash. The Sky had its own nose and some different badging, but otherwise didn't differ much from the Solstice.For the three or four people who have not heard already, friday night my car was kinda wrecked in a T-bone collision with a car that ran a stop sign. The base transmission in the Sky was an Aisin five-speed manual, but this car has the optional five-speed automatic. The Sky Redline version had a turbocharged engine rated at 260 horses we can assume that such an engine would be yanked and purchased by the first junkyard shopper that realized what it was. The 177-horsepower, 2.4-liter Ecotec still resides under the battered hood. This Sky endured a medium-hard impact in the right front corner, which sent it to this place. I've found a handful of discarded Solstices in car graveyards during the past few years, mostly with crash damage. 2008 Saturn SKY Redline 2dr Convertible for Sale by Owner. Here's one of those rare cars, found in a Denver-area self-service yard a few weeks ago. Available for just the 2007 through 2010 model years, slightly more than 34,000 Skies rolled out of showrooms before the doors were nailed shut. Search from 53 Used Saturn Sky cars for sale, including a 2007 Saturn Sky Red Line, a 2008 Saturn Sky Red Line, and a 2009 Saturn Sky Red Line ranging in price from 5,988 to 23,000. Test drive Used Saturn Sky Red Line at home from the top dealers in your area. Still, optimism reigned - at least, it did until the global economy fell apart - and so Saturn Dealers got a rebadged version of the Solstice to sell: the Sky. Find Saturn Sky Red Line Cars for Sale by City. The Pontiac Division didn't have long to live when the Solstice first appeared in 2005 as a 2006 model, and Saturn's head was inching toward the chopping block at about the same rate. Junkyard Gem: 2007 Saturn Sky The Saturn-badged version of the Pontiac Solstice, found near Denver. ![]()
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