The air bag

[Billyman]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3253677/detail.html

ST. JEROME, Quebec -- He assumed it was an airbag -- but it turned out to be the body of a teenager he had hit with his car.

A Canadian man who drove around with an 18-year-old's body lodged in his windshield after hitting him has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Gilles Francoeur pleaded guilty last year to leaving the scene of an accident in Quebec.

The man said at a sentencing hearing that he felt an impact while driving home. He said his windshield broke and he saw something on the passenger seat -- but assumed it was the airbag that deployed.

He said it was only after he went home and then out again that he realized a dead body was stuck in the windshield.
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ahm, yeah

[Pianomahnn]

3.5 years is it?

[Koliedrus]

This is on topic, goddamit, even if it isn't about the story...

Airbag functionality is NOT federally mandated in pre-owned vehicles.

If you wreck your vehicle, the airbag deploys, you get the major structural damage repaired and trade it in for another vehicle, the dealership that you sold your wreck to can jam a stuffed teddy-bear in the airbag compartment and sell it as-is.

You have to ask. So ASK!

[MAC]

FYI:
every car I've ever seen that deployed the airbag also cut the power to the fuel pump and the car cut off

no drivey-drivey

[Barbie]

This happened last year. It made news throughout Canada because of that stupid woman in Tejas.

How drunk was he that he mistook a body for an airbag?