2009 Hyundai Santa Fe: airbags did not deploy in a crash

Filed Jan 21, 2025 · Airbags, Brakes · NC · crash · 4 injuries

On January 16,2025 I was driving my Hyundai Santa Fe on the freeway with my three children when the automatic brake system suddenly failed, causing me to lose control of the vehicle. As a result, we spun off the road, and the vehicle flipped four times, causing us multiple injuries. Additionally, due to a known recall involving the failure of the airbag deployment system, the airbags did not deploy during the crash. These combined defects caused me and my children to suffer significant injuries, including broken cervical spine. Broken thoracic spine and Broken Sternum. My daughter has a fractured spine and sternum. And both my sons have serious bruising and head trauma. Both the automatic brake system and the airbag system on this vehicle are part of existing recalls issued by Hyundai Motors. These failures directly contributed to the severity of our accident and the injuries we sustained

Filed Jun 29, 2021 · Airbags · NJ · crash

Slowed down to pull into parking spot and suddenly car picked up speed and crash through a vacant store front. Car stopped after hitting a wall and moved what ever was on the other side of the wall. Air bags did not deploy driver of car was shaken up but no physical injuries. Car damaged towed to junk yard and insurer totaled vehicle.

Filed Jan 2, 2020 · Acceleration, Airbags · 43,000 miles · MA · crash · 1 injury

I was coming from food shopping, on august, 26, 2019 and was trying to leave out my parking spot. While me backing out, my vehicle accelerated backward and while I tried to stop my vehicle it tapped into a light pole. I was trying to get my self out of this weird situation. I switched gears to park my car, and my car accelerated forward slamming into a brick wall and also rubbing against it. My car then slowly started to back up not even letting me be able to break or switch gears. For the last time it accelerated forward side swiping a lady car and hitting the brick wall again. My air bags did not go off, leaving me with an concussion and also sever neck and head pain. This all happen so suddenly and randomly. I barely remembered what happened until seeing a video off of the camera at a near by gas station. This situation went from something weird happening into a very dangerous and scary situation. I contacted national consumers affairs hyundai motor vehicle, because my car had been totaled, I was left with hospital bills and also my insurance may go up, because of the whole situations. I thought I would have came to some closure when it came to them helping me out with my situation, but they told me they can't find nothing wrong with my car and there was no defect or anything. After sending these people pictures, the video, and even proof of me going to the hospital more than once,they made me feel like this was all my fault. I spoke to a "private" contractor from hyundai that was supposed to look into my car and also a specialist that didn't want to give me his last name while looking into my case. Also a lady from hyundai called me from a private number from the company. This all seem so weird to me as if they were scamming me when it came to a serious situation like this. I feel like hyundai is running fake investigations. I'm hoping the federal safety agency do something asap.

Filed Apr 26, 2018 · Airbags · 127,000 miles · CT · crash · 1 injury

The vehicle was stationary stopped in a line of traffic on an exit ramp. Another vehicle, traveling at high speed, failed to notice traffic was stopped and struck my vehicle from behind. The force of the impact caused heavy damage to my rear bumper, bent the frame and crumpled the rear passenger side quarter panel, etc. It also launched my vehicle diagonally into the guard rail causing heavy damage to my front bumper and driver side quarter panel, etc. The impact launched me forward and my face smashed into the steering wheel, breaking my nose, injuring my eye socket, causing a concussion and whiplash in my neck. I was wearing my seat belt. The air bags never deployed. Had the airbags deployed, it may have saved my face and preventing other injuries.

Filed Jul 17, 2014 · Airbags · 80,000 miles · NH · crash

My car has been in two accident one was yesterday when a deer jumped out in front of my car on the highway and I hit her straight on going about 55 miles per hour. The front of my car is destroyed but yet my air bags never went off. The first accident I was in was in the winter and a car plowed into me as I pulled over because I noticed she was out of control, she was coming down a large hill and was going at a high speed when she hit the drive side back door which caved in and the door was in the back seat. The back end frame of my car needed to be replaced. I was upset thinking what if one of my children was in the car with me but I was told the reason the airbags didn't go off because it wasn't a flat hit to the side of my car. Someone is going to get killed if these airbags don't go off when they should.

Filed Aug 9, 2013 · Body, Engine · 54,000 miles · IN · crash

I was a passenger in the vehicle when it crashed into a fire hydrant doing approximately 40mph. The seatbelt failed to lock and the airbags failed to deploy. The car has major damage to the underbody, front-end, the inside of the vehicle dash, the motor mounts, engine and other damages are unknown at this time.

Filed Jun 4, 2010 · Acceleration, Airbags · 10,000 miles · CO · crash · 2 injuries

While pulling into head-in parking space, 2009 hyundai santa fe suddenly accelerated. Hit a concrete wall, causing significant radiator and fender damage (estimated total repair costs over $8000). Driver suffered scrapes and bruises on neck/chest from seatbelt/steering wheel, bruising on knee, and head pain . Child in rear booster seat suffers neck pain. Air bag did not deploy.