Front Air Bag problems of the 2005 Toyota Prius

Daugther and son-in-law were driving my 2005 Toyota Prius. A Jeep grand cherokee hit them head on going 32-35 mph. My s-n-l was driving slowing down to a stop sign and saw the Jeep coming at them on their side of the road so he was braking hoping the Jeep would either stop or swerve around them. The driver of the Jeep didn't even brake. Hit them head on more on the passenger side pushing them back about 10-15 ft. The jeeps airbags deployed. The airbags on my Prius didn't. The damage to the Jeep was a screwed up bumper and a bent license plate. The damage to my Toyota Prius was totalled. Engine flattened and pushed in over a foot almost under the dashboard of car. Passenger door couldn't open until firefighters pryied it open. Called Toyota, filed a claim on defective airbag. My response was they weren't going fast enough(only over 30 mph) for the airbags to deploy, they weren't hit hard enough and the dashboard must not have loosened from the car or else airbags would have deployed. My daughter took the blunt of it. Body flew forward (she had a seatbelt on) hand hit dashboard, knees hit glove compartment so hard that it popped open. How bad does an accident have to be for airbags to go off. We pay for safety. The driver that caused this was drunk, wife drunk and they had a 3 yr old in the car at 10:45 in the morning. They had no injuries, their air bags deployed. Forgot to mention daughters sister-in-law in seat behind her, whiplash, bruises on legs and back is tweaked, but they weren't hit hard enough. Toyota use to be great on safety and now they are really bad and won't fess up to errors. Search Toyota airbag defects and see all the others that have had problems. Someone will have to die probably hundreds before something is done.

I was in the passenger seat of my car, my friend was driving. It was a 4 lane street with a turning lane in the center. I think we were going between 35 and 40 mph when we hit (police report estimated 45 mph) a f250 diesel supercharge turned infront of us without warning. We t-boned it, impact was on the front right tire of his truck, ours was head on. My Prius's bumper was pushed back to the engine and the engine was pushed back so much that it pushed back the dash inside the car. I couldn't get my door open. We had seatbelts on, but no airbags went off. On site emergency crews said they should've gone off. I've seen 2 doctors since, both side my whiplash and neck pain would have been less severe if an airbag was deployed. My car is totaled.

I was involved in a off-set frontal collision in a 2005 Toyota Prius equipped with dual front air bags and side curtain air bags on July 1, 2008. None of the four air bag systems in this vehicle deployed upon impact. I was traveling approximately 35 mph and the other vehicle was going ~ 30-35 mph. The other driver involved was not injured, but I was taken by ambulance to the local er trauma center where I underwent over 11 hours in a neck collar and numerous CT scans, mris and several x-rays. Thankfully I was not seriously injured but still have neck, back, and abdominal pain from the crash. Prior to this accident, I had surgery on June 24, 2008 and was still recovering from the surgery. The auto accident has significantly affected the speed of my recovery.