1999 Toyota Camry Solara: airbags did not deploy in a crash

Filed Jun 16, 2016 · Airbags · 170,600 miles · CA · crash · 1 injury

Tl* the contact owns a 1999 toyota camry solara. While driving approximately 35 MPH, another vehicle crashed into the rear of the contact's vehicle at a high rate of speed. The air bags did not deploy. A police report was filed. The contact sustained unknown injuries that required medical attention. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 170,600.

Filed Oct 21, 2014 · Airbags, Engine · 73,451 miles · IL · crash · 1 injury

My daughter was driving into starved rock national park in illinois around 4 p.m. On august 20th, 2014. She driving on the entrance drive at the speed of 10 MPH. The car suddenly started ramping up in speed causing the my daughter to start braking. The car continued gaining speed and the brakes were unable to stop the vehicle. As the car was going faster, my daughter entered the parks visitor center parking lot. While still trying to stop the vehicle, my daughter hit a parked car to the right, just clipping it causing damage to the hit car's taillight. Her car hit a car to the left then hit a parked tahoe which stopped my daughters car after being pushed 4 parking spaces. We complained to toyota corp. They inspected the car and said it was mechanically sound. They admitted after further discussion the accelerator cable was frozen. They said this happened from an impact behind the battery, problem is that there was no impact that could have caused this until the impact of hitting the tahoe. My daughter was fighting to stop from the entrance drive. The toyota rep. Also stated that their inspection team released the cable and said it worked fine. The rep. Could not answer my question regarding the timing of the cable being frozen. They are accusing my daughter of accelerating the vehicle due to fact that it is a mechanical accelerator, it was the only way this could have happened. Another issue is that the airbags did not deploy. Toyota claims due to the fact that the impact was slightly off center of the front that they did not deploy. Looking at the damage including the radiator being pushed into the engine, the airbags should have deployed. Toyota feels that our car is fine and there were no issues with the manufacturing or the design. Please help.

Filed Jan 29, 2010 · Airbags, Electrical · 115,000 miles · MD · crash · 1 injury

My daughter was driving 1999 toyota camry solara. When crossing highway at intersection, the car hesitated on acceleration and she was struck on the passenger side rear. She states she had plenty of time to cross but "the car just wouldn't go". Also, despite impacts from several angles, no airbags deployed.

Filed Mar 24, 2006 · Airbags · 8,452 miles · GA · crash

I purchased the car new in september 1998. On december 13, 1999 I was involved in an accident. I was driving to work that morning on a major interstate, I-285 east, it was around 7:30 am and traffic was bumper to bumper. Traffic began moving and I was going approximately 40 MPH when suddenly the truck in front of me slammed on his brakes and I hit him. The nose of my care was smashed so hard that the hood crumpled into a tepee and was pushed back into the windshield causing the glass to crack. I couldn't open my doors because the impact had pushed the doors back so they overlapped the back quarter panels and were jammed. Luckily no one was hurt. This was a dead on front impact accident in a practically brand new car and the airbags did not deploy. There was not a single inch of the front end that didn't take the impact so there is no way it "missed the sensors". The damage to the car ended up being over $10,000.00. The airbags seriously malfunctioned and I was lucky that I wasn't injured.

Filed Sep 11, 2003 · GA · crash

1. My 1999 se v6 solara began smoking a lot everytime I started the car and when I accelerated. It turned out to be the "sludge" problem and the dealer did all of the required work to fix that. 2. I was in a front end accident in 1999 and the airbags failed to deploy. 3. There is a very loud, for lack of a better word, clunking in the front passenger side wheel area. The dealer says the strut tops are worn out and it will cost $750.00??? Per side to replace the struts. The car only has 35,000 miles on it. Shouldn't the struts have a longer life than that? 4. The driver side window just fell into the door panel one day and had to have the regulator replaced. 5. About a month ago, if I tried to restart the car when the engine was still warm it wouldn't crank. First there was no noise at all when I turned the key over and if I waited a bit, as it cooled off, it would eventually start. Then one day on my way home from work I stopped at the store and when I tried to leave it was dead and wouldn't start at all. I had it towed to the dealer where I had to buy a new battery and have a throttle body service because the was "carbon build up in the injectors". 6. The car shakes like it is going to explode at high speeds and it is not the tires being out of balance or the alignment. It also shimmies badly when I apply the brakes from a high speed. 7. Now, I went to have an emission test done and failed because the check engine light is on. The code was for the o2 sensor. My mother has the same car and has had the check engine light problem for the o2 sensor, which she had repaired and within a week the light was back on. I am so tired of one thing after the next with this car.

Filed Feb 20, 2001 · Airbags · FL

Went to arbitration and lost, because I could not prove air bags would not deploy in crash. Scc *nlm **dimsii ivoq entry posted after 12/12/02 cut-over to artemis*741229