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2007 Subaru FORESTER Air Bags Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	963113
Internal NHTSA #	10496547
Manufacurer	Subaru of America, Inc.
Brand	SUBARU
Model	FORESTER
Model Year	2007
File date	30/01/13
Component	AIR BAGS
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	Approaching a traffic light which was turning yellow at a t-junction, i tried to step on the brakes. Perhaps i hit the accelerator with the force i intended to use on the brakes, but when i thought i stepped on the brake, i lurched forward rapidly. I could not correct in time and hit 2 poles and a wall. I don't know my mph. The 25 mph listed above is a guess, but the front end collision was so substantial the car was totaled. The air bags, however, did not deploy. The police, tow truck driver and witnesses could not believe that the air bags had not gone off. I was lucky; at the hospital my injuries were determined to be muscular rather bone related, but i had a sore neck, chest & lower back. Subaru responded to notification of this event : "it is difficult to discern why the airbags did not deploy without knowing the extent of the accident. According to the forester owner's manual, the airbags are designed to deploy in the event of an accident involving a moderate to severe frontal collision. It is basically not designed to deploy in lesser frontal impacts because the necessary protection can be achieved by the seatbelt alone. Also, they are basically not designed to deploy in side or rear impacts or in roll-over accidents because deployment of only the driver's srs frontal airbag or both driver's and front passenger's srs frontal airbags would not help the occupant in those situations. Srs airbag deployment depends on the level of force experienced in the passenger compartment during a collision. That level differs from one type of collision to another, and it may have no bearing on the visible damage done to the vehicle itself... If the vehicle strikes an object such as a telephone pole or sign pole, or if the vehicle sustains an oblique offset frontal impact. The airbags also will not deploy if the vehicle is involved in a low-speed frontal collision."
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	33710
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	VERONA, NJ
VIN pattern	JF1SG63647HXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	Y
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	1
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
Number of cylinders	4
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Vehicle speed	25
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2007 Subaru FORESTER Air Bags Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2007 Subaru FORESTER Air Bags Problems, Complaints and Defects

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