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April 1993, a 6 year-old child who was sitting unrestrained in the front passenger seat of a 1993-model car was killed when the passenger-side airbag deployed during a collision with a stationary vehicle. The child died from a brain injury caused by blunt-force trauma (Bourke). This is one example of the real life consequences of airbags, when people disregard the power of airbags. The first great step forward in preventing fatal and serious injuries with airbags is for car occupants to always wear a seat belt (Bourke). With seatbelts and airbags the chance of no injury is 80 percent. Passenger airbags have been standard in all new cars since 1996, these devices have been credited with saving more than 4750 people, but also it has been implicated in the deaths of 146 people including 84 children. Now, here is the issue to be discussed. Children are the future, but how are they going to get there by killer airbags? For a young child sitting in the front seat 80 pounds or less, with a passenger side airbag is almost a death wish. Statistics show that most children under 80 pounds have too small of a physical structure to sit in the passenger seat. All because of these occurrences the next few pages will show and explain th