Air Bag Not Deploy problems of the 2011 Chevrolet Traverse

The contact owned a 2001 Chevrolet Traverse. While driving 65 mph on the highway, the driver fell asleep, veered off the road, and crashed into a tree. The side air bags deployed, but the driver's side and front passenger side air bags failed to deploy. A police report was filed. The driver and front passenger sustained whiplash. Two child passengers experienced whiplash, bruises, and cuts. Another child passenger was shaken up and experienced low blood pressure. Another adult passenger sustained a fractured back and extensive medical treatment. The vehicle was destroyed. The VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 14v118000 (air bags). The failure mileage was not available.

The contact owns a 2011 Chevrolet Traverse. The contact stated while waiting at a traffic light, a vehicle crashed into the rear end and pushed the vehicle into an intersection. The air bags failed to deploy and the seat belt failed to restrain her. The contact sustained injuries to the chest, knee and a fractured hand. The police report was filed. The contact also stated that the air bag light illuminated three times prior to the failure however, the dealer was not able to duplicate the failure and as a temporary remedy reset the light. The contact also later received notification of NHTSA campaign id number 14v118000 (air bag). The manufacturer was not made aware of the problem. The approximate failure was 45,000.

In late April of this year, driver and front seat passenger in 2011 Traverse were hit head on by another driver. The front impact was distributed relatively evenly to the front end of the vehicle, with the passenger side sustaining slightly greater damage. Both front-side airbags deployed. The driver side front airbag deployed. The passenger side front airbag did not deploy. Although two individuals were injured in the crash, the passenger sustained significantly more injures, was life flighted to hospital where she ultimately had to have her speen removed, among sustaining other injuries. I suspect this to be an issue with the airbag sensor, mechanism of airbag deployment, or other currently unknown defect.

I was turning on a green arrow from an on ramp. A woman in an large Ford van hit the rear door and quarter of my vehicle on the driver side sending us up and in a circle. We came down hard after a complete circle. The airbags did not deploy. Onstar did not work. My husband went to the hospital via ambulance and my mother and I received significant bruising. I hit my head so hard on the driver side window it threw my glasses into the passenger floor. I could not believe there was no airbag system as this was the reason I bought the vehicle for my family of 7. I called Chevrolet and was given all kinds of excuses. I argued several times with them. Later - we receive massive recalls on failed airbags! thank you chevy! thanks a lot for a vehicle that has let us down over and over. I would never recommend a chevy! little warranty, and they will let it run out before they diagnose the vehicle. See my other complaint.

I was going straight at 40 mph (confirmed by gm engineer). Another vehicle turned in front of me and there was a t-bone style of accident. The other car was totaled and mine took about $18000 of damage. None of my airbags deployed. I complained to gm, they sent an engineer out to look at the vehicle before it was repaired to assess and they said that the airbags not deploying meant that they functioned correctly. The engineers report said at the moment of impact, my car was traveling 40mph, and I have a hard time believing that the airbags wouldn't deploy under any circumstances while the vehicle is traveling 40mph.