Totaled?

The bumpers are designed to help the occupants survive not to protect the truck. "real bumpers" do not absorb impacts.

 

Actually you'd be surprised on how much force you need to deploy airbags. It all has to do with the G forces that the vehicle takes in certain areas. Not deploying airbags might have saved your life. alot of people were dying from getting air bags deployed with a 5-10 MPH collision and breaking their necks against the bags.

In this case, the tundra has a bigger change in G forces than your truck. That's why his went off and yours did not.

 

False.
High School physics.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-physics-of-a-car-collision-2698920

 

Sucks but as long as you're alright is what that counts. Insurance will pay you out for your totaled truck. I call it an upgrade ;-).

 

Glad your OK, sorry about your Taco though.

 

How did your dog fair? I see him in the passenger seat

 

Thatll be borderline totaled from my experience. My wreck was similar but all bags deployed and total cost of estimated repairs was 31k.

 

Just my guess here, but I'm thinking the crumple zone on your tacoma absorbed most of the shock of the accident. If the sensor registered enough inertial change they probably would have deployed.

 

She was fine wagging her tail and licking my face right after it happened.

 

My vote is totalled. Your motor looks like it took a hit. New motor, entirely new front end, bent frame, etc.

 

I would argue that your not correct. He t-boned the Tundra, that means the Tundra side absorbed energy from the Tacoma, unlike the wall which will not absorb the energy, the Tundra did, thus the reason the Tundra airbags deployed.

 

Glad you are ok! That sucks but u walked away. IMO looks like a total loss. Here's a pic of mine when I got wrecked into. My bag also didn't deploy. It was about 14k in damage

 

Wow. I'm so sorry OP. I'm glad that everyone is OK.

Did you have Gap insurance?
Please go via a not so expensive attorney route. The fact that the airbags didn't deploy worry me. Not just for your sake, but for everyone's sake, who have their family and kids.
If your insurance writes off your truck as totaled, will you kindly sell me your side mirrors with the BSM lights? I will pay for yours, and also send you mine w/o BSM. And also need a wire.

 

Lol already asking for a part out? Even if it is totaled, the insurance owns it. Unless he buys it back to part it. Which will be expensive to buy it back

 

You won't get anything from anyone by lawyering up. No injuries means no money from the airbag thing even if they are faulty (even though they probably aren't) because you didn't actually suffer any harm from them not going off. Suing the city for traffic light function is one hell of a stretch. I'm sure they use a standardized system. You would be paying any lawyer on the case up front because they know there is a high probability you won't collect a dime, and even if you did it would be the value of the damage, which is insured anyway. So no real reason to take that route. If the insurance company thought it was an issue they would sue to recover what they pay for the damages, but they wont.

Just be happy nobody is hurt and that you are insured. That is life, shit happens.

 

It'd be the ol' switcharoo .

 

Yeah I'm not looking to sue anybody. Just hoping for the best at the moment. As a side note enterprise gave me a 2018 Colorado so I will see how that goes until i get my car back or buy a new one.

 

That is awesome. I'll be interested to hear how you feel it after living with it for a while.

 

How far sideways did the front end of your truck move during the t-bone? Did you end up facing the same direction you were originally? I could see the force of the impact being sideways enough against the front end of your truck that it didn't meet the computer's threshold for deploying the airbags.

 

So I was going probably 15-20 mph and went from 12 to 10 on a analog clock. maybe 4 or 5 feet I would say.