Use of incomplete data distorts conclusions about effectiveness of frontal airbags.

This article revisits the controversy over frontal airbags and whether passengers are safer in a vehicle that has them or one that does not. The article suggests passengers are safer with air bags, and points out that most deaths attributed to airbags that deployed in low-speed collisions occurred in 1997 and earlier. Since then, the problem has been dramatically reduced. The article makes the case that the data used by researchers at the University of Georgia who initially concluded that frontal airbags were dangerous was flawed.