Where do you guys hold the wheel?

[holyc0w]

I found some report about hand injuries from car accidents (caution: graphic images included): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4349845/

Don't click before eating and probably after.

[az3579]

Interesting. I figured with the design of the airbag and how it ejects, I thought it would completely bypass the thumb. Perhaps it depends on the car model?

Edit: no idea why it quoted the wrong post, so I just removed the quote...

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[holyc0w]

Yeah, I would figure it would be more the force of the wheel going into the thumb, but not the airbag.

[Rovert]

It's amazing just how instant an airbag goes off from first "hand" experience. I feel for the people who are not properly educated on seating position, for people who are just too stubborn to seat correctly, and for those who have little choice because physically they can't be seated properly. If your arms are super short and you're seat is forced to be in an extreme forward position, that airbag is just going to hit you hard. When you're in a crash, fight or flight mode activates and adrenaline floods the body. You'll be amazed how tensed your body will become. That super human strength can hold a steering wheel so hard that a person's locked fingers could not handle the force of an explosive airbag.

[BMWCurves]

I found some report about hand injuries from car accidents (caution: graphic images included): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4349845/

Don't click before eating and probably after.

Interesting that the first case was a passenger, not a driver. Seems to have been caused by putting her hands/thumb joint over the area of the airbag cover in front of her on the dashboard. Pretty impressive that at the 2 year mark post-op she only had slight numbness and stiffness as had regained most of the joint's mobility.

[Sockethead]

I've had two air bag deployments as a driver, the first was in a '92 econoline van when I rear-ended a pickup. My forearms got pretty scratched up from that. I'm not really sure where my hands were on that one. The second was when I hit a deer in my '96 Taurus. No injuries at all from that one. I'm pretty sure my hands were at 9:00 and 3:00.
The air bag inflates a deflates so quickly that you're not even aware that it deployed other than the cloud of powder that fills the car. I looked down and saw the deflated bag sitting there.

[danewilson77]

I think the thumb injury is due to impact, not Air bag deployment.

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[Karl Lazlo]

I think the thumb injury is due to impact, not Air bag deployment.

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That has been my experience (purely academic). Drivers who get hand and digit injury from accidents are usually a result of camming the thumb inside the steering wheel.

As a rule, I cam my thumb out of the wheel for a few reasons.

[Not_Special]

5 and 7 with my knees, exclusively.

Lol

[Don Adolfo]

10 & 2 95% of the time. 44 years driving in large cities and third world countries 0 at fault accidents, and only fender benders. I'll take my chances at 10 & 2.


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