[J.Bahde]

I'm so sorry to hear about what happened. I'm glad everyone was ok, it could have been so much worse.

My mom got into a pretty bad accident driving a Ranger several years ago. It was dark and raining pretty hard, someone had an alternator go bad on their vehicle and left it disabled in the middle of the road with absolutely no lights on. She hit it pretty hard, it looked bad enough that the airbags should have came out IMO. Luckily she was OK, it totaled out her truck though.

I was driving a company vehicle (Dodge Ram) on a 4 lane road with no shoulders in a city a couple years ago, I was in the right lane with a car next to me in the left lane. All of the sudden that car decided to move over into my lane, I guess he didn't see me. The back quarter panel of his car hit the front fender of my truck and forced me into a telephone pole, we were traveling about 40MPH. I also braced for the airbags to come out, but they didn't. That accident ended up totaling out my vehicle.

So apparently it takes a pretty hard hit to cause the airbags to deploy. Once again, I'm glad everyone is OK, be safe!