Mercury Preliminary Evaluation PE03002: FRONTAL AIR BAG NON-DEPLOYMENT IN CRASH

2001 Mercury Sable

FRONTAL AIR BAG NON-DEPLOYMENT IN CRASH

Air Bags:Frontal

Summary
Ford Motor Company has identified 260 reports alleging frontal air bag non-deployment for any (severity) frontal or near-frontal crash on model year 2000-2001 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable vehicles.additional crash reports are contained in NHTSA's fatality analysis reporting system (FARS) database.the single ODI report listed in the report summary is NHTSA's special crash investigation's case no. CA00-020 that involved a high-speed crash non-deployment involving a driver fatality and front passenger injury.this preliminary evaluation has been upgraded to an engineering analysis (EA03-010) and ODI will collect additional information on certain crash reports and conduct further study of this issue.
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Date Opened
JAN 06, 2003
Date Closed
JUL 02, 2003
NHTSA Recall #
No recall issued
  • Status:
    CLOSED
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