Would side impact air bags have helped protect Jerry Nadeau better? “We did look at air bags about six or seven years ago, in TransAm, and there are a lot of issues,’ Dan Davis, the head of Ford’s racing division, said. “The more you tried to make that work, the more you found there were situations where it didn’t work. There was a crash test done, there were systems being designed. But the further we got into the program the more nervous we got about it working. For example – multiple hits. How does the bag react?”( Winston Salem Journal )(5-16-2003)
