11 problems related to air bag have been reported for the 2002 Dodge Dakota. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Light on air bag.
, I was in a car accident on December 15 because my brakes failed and was hurt across my chest. The impact was strong because for a moment I lost time, but the hospital didn't give any brain scans. My chest hurt severely for a month and I still feel pain when I lift or move a certain way. Anyway I and many other people wondered why my airbag did not go off. I was not able to get my car out of the pound for lack of money but the front was much damaged. Would this fall under the recall that going on with the takata corp.
Takata recall - my father owned a 2005 Dodge Dakota truck. On January 1, 2016 he ran his car off the side of the road and hit a lamp post off a highway in florida and died on impact. The car was totalled out. I am trying to see if we qualify for this recall. I do not have the police record and death certificate on my computer currently but I could get those items if needed.
I had just purchased the car 2 weeks earlier. I was excellerating to merge onto the freeway and the accelerator stuck at 60 mph. No matter what I did to the pedal, it was stuck at 60 mph. The brakes would not work either. I was in a a runaway car on a busy freeway. I tried to negotiate the traffic for 2 miles then decided I needed to get off the freeway. I started to smash into the freeway off-ramp retaining wall in the effort to slow the truck down which it did to some degree. Then had to barrel through a red light with flashers and horn going and to stop the truck I deliberately rammed it into a wrought iron fence, 2 landscaping boulders and a light post. The airbag also failed. I was rushed by ambulance to the hospital with head trauma and concussion, broken glasses that cut my eyebrow. I have pictures. The worst part has been the ptsd that I have suffered as a result of the accident -- multiple failure - accelerator, brakes and airbag.
Traveling sb on us 13, I fell asleep at the wheel. Struck 2 vehicles at approx. 50 mph, point of impact driver's side front of truck. Insurance adjuster totalled the truck, so the impact was surely enough to warrant deployment of both front airbags. They failed to deploy, resulting in a head injury to my companion. She was taken to the hospital by ambulance, so her injuries were documented. I had a large abdominal bruise, but refused treatment so I have no documentation of my injury. She has a permanent scar above her eyebrow as a result of the accident, which I believe would've been prevented had airbag properly deployed.
I was on a back road doing 35 mph I hit black ice and the back end went out. I had weight in the back of the truck but it didn't help. I let off the gas and the brake and tried to slowly correct the back end. It just made the situation worse. I knew I was going off the road. My truck took a nose dive into a six-foot ditch the back end came straight up and the roof hit a tree from then the truck spun on its nose fell onto its left side went up hit the roof again and finally stopped on the drivers side. I was knocked unconscious with the first hit after that I was completely scalped. Neither one of the air bags deployed. I only wonder if they did I may not have been scalped and suffered such traumatic head injuries. At this point I am just happy to be alive. The insurance company totaled out the truck undeployed air bags and all.
Airbag didn't deploy when an accident occured at 43 mph. Steering wheel locked up when my son hit the brakes to avoid the accident.
While traveling on wet road came upon high water and a vehicle spun out half on the shoulder, half in my lane. Applied the brakes which locked up. Slid into spun vehicle hitting head on at 40-45mph. Neither driver or passenger airbags deployed. Front end was heavily damaged.
I was driving down the road when a truck ran his stop sign and stopped in the intersection (it is not a 4 stop). It was lightly raining. When I applied my brakes the abs didn't work and I then lost control slamming into the ditch embankment. Missing the truck. I was going about 35-40 mph when I hit. I hit head on into the embankment. When I hit my air bag didn't deploy and the steering column broke.
The consumer loss control of the vehicle when the brakes failed at 40 mph. The vehicle hit a tree and none of the airbags deployed.
When the consumer applied the brakes, the brake pedal traveled to the floor, which caused the consumer to lose control of vehicle and hit a tree. Consequently none of the airbags deployed.