… A 73-year-old widow and her 46-year-old daughter were driving on a dark county road when headlights suddenly appeared coming towards them in their lane. There was a horrific impact between the vehicles, the widow’s aortic artery was torn and she began to bleed heavily. Only prompt emergency surgery at a trauma center saved her life. The widow’s medical bills were covered, but there was not enough motor vehicle insurance to compensate her for this terrible injury. An automotive engineer was hired to determine why the car’s air bags never deployed. The engineer found that there was nothing wrong with the air bags and they should not have deployed since there was more of a side impact than a frontal impact.
