The airbag of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT" class="extiw" title="en:SEAT">SEAT</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT_Ibiza" class="extiw" title="en:SEAT Ibiza">Ibiza</a> automobile, photographed about an hour after the car had been severely damaged in a road crash.<br><p>By 0.3 seconds after inflation, the bag is supposed to be empty.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/032air_bag/how_work.html">[1]</a>
</p><p>The driver crashed into the back of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" class="extiw" title="en:Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes</a> in a queue of traffic he was approaching because he thought the queue was moving. Actually it was stationary and he couldn’t stop! He said that deflation seemed instantaneous, it wasn’t seconds.
</p><p>The interval between the crash and this photo was one hour because the photo was taken after the car had been towed to a garage. The quality is low because the picture had to be taken through the driver's window (which wouldn’t wind down).
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The driver was not hurt in any way; chassis distortion meant that the car was written off.
Users <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lupin" class="extiw" title="en:User:Lupin">Lupin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arpingstone" class="extiw" title="en:User:Arpingstone">Arpingstone</a> on <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a>
<p>Originally from <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a>; description page is (was) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Car.airbag.600pix.jpg" class="extiw" title="en:Image:Car.airbag.600pix.jpg">here</a>
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* 13:25, 5 September 2004 [[:en:User:Lupin|Lupin]] 600×509 (102,279 bytes) &lt;span class="comment"&gt;(cropped)&lt;/span&gt;
* 21:47, 23 May 2003 [[:en:User:Arpingstone|Arpingstone]] 600×630 (96,472 bytes) &lt;span class="comment"&gt;(Car airbag)&lt;/span&gt;