Front Air Bag problems of the 2001 Honda Civic

My mother is a victim of sudden acceleration incident from a Honda Civic 2001. She was driving the vehicle on a small street and had placed it in park. Then, she placed the gear back into drive and before tapping the gas pedal the car surged forward in high acceleration and went out of control. She applied the brakes a few times but it failed to stop the car. The steering was also out of control and the car continued to accelerate about 30-40 mph for an entire block and finally, crashed into a tree totaling the vehicle. She was taken away by ambulance. As a result of the crash, she suffered from a broken ankle and heel, deep gash to the knee, severe chest pain (from airbag) and heart contusion. She spent over a week in the hospital and is still in the process of recovering.

American Honda was required to notify car owners of a recall for driver's airbags to affected Civic owners. I am one of those owners and never received notification. When seeing a notice for a recall from another manufacturer on the news, I logged into my Honda owner link account - one which I have been a registered user for more than 2 years, and which contains my correct mailing address (the same as when I purchased the car) - and was able to see that my car is indeed in the scope of recalled vehicles. Not only did I not receive my recall notice in the mail, the copy of the letter in my Honda owner link is a pdf document that has security options that will not allow me to copy any portion of the letter to a word document or print the letter at home so I can take it to my local dealership. In addition, I notice from documents related to the recall on this website that Honda notified NHTSA that approx 440,000 vehicles may be affected, but the copy of the service bulletin shown here tells dealers that only 7,000 vehicles may be expected. I am a dedicated Honda owner, but it seems that Honda is not fulfilling their obligations to their customers and the government - and using the pdf security settings to prevent those of us careful enough to check for ourselves from printing a copy of the letter.

The contact owns a 2001 Honda Civic. While driving 50 mph, the contact rear ended another vehicle. None of the air bags deployed. The contact received head and chest trauma, and is complaining of neck and back pain. He has seen a doctor for his injuries. The vehicle was destroyed and a police report was filed. The contact has pictures. The current and failure mileages were unknown.

My horn stopped working and my srs light came on about a year and a half ago. The dealer originally told me it had to do with the wiring. . . Costing me $300 which I could not afford to repair. I took the car in for the air bag recall and now they are saying the srs light is on because of a defect in the seat belt buckle ($200)- but why would that make my horn stop working? there are a lot of complaints and this needs to be recalled as this is incredibly unsafe and obviously widespread!!! Honda also needs to recall the transmission problems. I had fought them and they paid for half of the repair costs when my transmission dangerously and quickly went out in the middle of traffic during rush hour about three years ago. These are major safety issues!! unfortunately I cannot afford the repairs but I am scared to drive the car with the srs light on. I bought this car because of the supposed reliability and cheap maintenance. It is ridiculous that Honda is not taking car of the srs light problem and transmission problem!!!.

Our 2001 Honda Civic ex was involved in an accident. A pickup truck turned in front of our vehicle and our front-end hit his side. The air bag(s) did not deploy nor did the seat belt work properly. The driver's head in the Honda hit the windshield and the driver's neck hit the steering wheel.

I was driving my 2001 Honda Civic when a car ran a red light and drove into my driver side door. My complaint is that even though it was a side impact both of my front air bags went off, the problem was my car was still moving forward and I could not see where I was going and was very lucky to miss a light pole, a telephone pole, a electric grid box and several small trees all of which were in front of me. Like I said I was very lucky to miss all of those objects but if I had hit one I would not have had the air bags to protect me because they had already deployed. I have pictures of the car from after the accident and it clearly shows that there was not a single scratch on the front bumper that could have caused the deployment of the air bags. I am currently car shopping to replace the totaled vehicle and would love to purchase another Honda but I have doubts of the safety of their air bag deployment system.

I rear-ended another vehicle at approximately 60 mph on interstate I-95 in dade county, florida. My air bag did not inflate to protect me. I suffered serious injuries and was taken by paramedic to parkway regional medical center where I was admitted through the emergency room.

My parents were driving in a 2001 Honda Civic in cleveland, ohio. They were driving on icy roads on freeway and car next to them lost control, slamming both cars head on into concrete wall median. The air bags never went off. Then the car kept spinning and slid across road and hit guard rail on other side of road and again the air bags never went off.

Noticed that the srs light appeared on the dashboard and remained on. Vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection, and mechanic determined that the srs unit needed to be replaced.

The vehicle was involved in a frontal collision while traveling 60 mph. Neither the front driver nor passenger air bag deployed.

Vehicle had been in a frontal collision at 50 mph and neither air bag depolyed. Dealer and manufactuerer were notified. Feel free to provide any further information.

Front crash at 30 mph, neither airbag deployed. Passenger hit her head on windshield. Damage unknown at this time.

In rear and frontal collisions none of the air bags deployed, causing major injuries to driver and passenger.

While driving 25mph and started to turn a corner, vehicle lost all power, NHTSA campaign id number 01v18300, had no prior warning of problem. Consumer lost control of the vehicle and hit a telephone pole. Neither air bags deployed. Engine light illuminated and dealer informed consumer five times that the gas cap was the cause, consumer had accident two days after talking to dealer.

Consumer rearended another vehicle while driving 20mph. Neither airbag deployed. No injuries, vehicle has not been inspected by dealer. Please provide further information.

My car was totaled, it had extensive front end damange and side damange. I spent out on the PA turnpike and hit the media divider and the car airbags failed to open.

Bin# 1hges16581l010494, head on collision non of the air bags activated which could of eliminated the personal injuries. Portion of the front chasie twisted and frame damage 8000. 00$ cost of repair just to the car and non of the air bag activiated. Expert at the body shop confirm that the air bags should have activated which would have stop the brocken arm injury . Honda and the dealer where both contacted , Honda kind of believe that air bag should have activated just affraid to say they have faulty air bag system in their new car and take the reponsibilty to resolve the issue and take responsibilty for damage.