"Karen" <idgraphics@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:8dccf647.0401262314.6781713f@posting.google.c om...
> I drove my car in rush hour traffic for 1 hr., turned into parking
> lot, drove up hill around corners of 2 1/2 levels with foot on gas
> enough to keep 10 miles hr. speed. Turned into empty parking slot
> with tiny amount of gas- removed foot from gas ready to step on brake
> (facing cement wall)........my car accelerated forward bouncing 3 ft.
> back off cement wall- airbag in my face-(accelerated very fast)-...car
> full of fumes from airbag, arm burnt & bleeding-

Sounds nearly identical to my incident 2½ years ago with a ~ 53,000 mile 1996
Accord 2.2iSE Aerodeck (manufactured in the USA). I too hit a substantial
concrete block at the end of the parking slot, airbags deployed etc., and my
passenger was hospitalised with compressed chest, lacerations and bruising. I
received minor burns from airbag friction and a big knock to my confidence and
until then, totally accident free record after 40+ years of driving.
Repair costs were ~£5,000 in 2001, and I was without the car for 6 weeks.

Pretty sure I reported the incident here, but got no response, so assumed that
<I> was the idiot!
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M Stewart
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