@larand 2012 was a bad year for cars for me, I wrote off two in 5 months. The first was a lowish-speed nose-to-tail chain reaction involving four cars, mine caused it by running up the back of another. This was a Suzuki Ignis Sport & the subframe around the engine was bent back into a U-shape, as was the radiator. Not that you could tell from the plastic panels at the front. That had airbags fitted, in Australia they're supplementary restraints: the seat-belt & their pretensioners do most of the work, airbags only deploy if the force is likely to be fatal.
The belt pretensioners certainly worked: I had a massive multi-coloured bruise (yellow, red, blue, black & purple) going from shoulder across to the bottom of my ribs on the opposite side. It took 11 weeks for the bruising to clear up.
// @phoneboy @streakmachine @kdfrawg