Air Bag On-off Switch problems of the 1998 Toyota RAV4

One problem related to air bag on-off switch has been reported for the 1998 Toyota RAV4. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Air Bag On-off Switch problem

Failure Date: 05/20/2012

The contact owns a 1998 Toyota Rav4. The contact was driving 60 mph and attempted to avoid a tractor trailer. While switching lanes, the rear of the contact's vehicle crashed into another vehicle, causing the contact to spin out of control, crash into the tractor trailer and then into the guard rail. The vehicle was destroyed. The air bags did not deploy. Each of the three passengers were wearing seat belts however none of them locked on impact, causing injury to each of the three passengers. The vehicle was neither repaired nor inspected for the cause of the air bag failure. The failure and the current mileages were 105,000.


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