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1995 Ford WINDSTAR Air Bags Frontal Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	512539
Internal NHTSA #	10098416
Manufacurer	Ford Motor Company
Brand	FORD
Model	WINDSTAR
Model Year	1995
File date	02/11/04
Component	AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	My husband, my son, and myself were on our way home last tuesday evening and the airbags on our 1995 ford windstar deployed while the vehicle was in motion. This was a very freighting and stressful situation. We had just turned off one road onto the next making our way home when the airbags burst out and caused several injuries to my husband and me. My husband has powder residue burns on his face, his arms are cut from the wrist up. He recently suffered a stroke and this has caused a lot of mental stress as well as pain. X-rays are needed to make sure that his hand is not broken. I had heart surgery in august and did not need this kind of scare. I hear an echo in my right ear now from the loud explosion from the airbags. I am afraid to ride in any vehicle with front passenger airbags. I called 9-1-1 to find out if an officer needed to come and investigate and trooper williams told me that since there was no accident that he could not do any type of report. We have many witnesses that saw our van and the extreme damage that it did to the hood resulting in the signal light flying off the van which we still have not found and the headlights barely hanging on. The hood is bowed up from the under side. We have contacted ford motor company and also took the van to a ford dealership and had it inspected to find out why the airbags deployed when no accident happened. They are just as puzzled. I need an answer as to why the airbags deployed like they did while we were deploying out of the blue. The windstar is our only means of transportation and i feel like ford needs to understand that and figure out what happened. If my husband would have taken his hands of the steering wheel, we would probably be dead now. *jb
Vehicle Mileage at Failure
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	CHADBOURN, NC
VIN pattern	XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?
Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	2
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	06/06/03
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	Y
Cruise control	Y
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Drive train type	FWD
Transmission type	AUTO
Vehicle speed	15
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
What is Failure?
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
What is Defect?
Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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1995 Ford WINDSTAR Air Bags Frontal Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

1995 Ford WINDSTAR Air Bags Frontal Problems, Complaints and Defects

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