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Michael Burgess: “I cannot imagine any circumstance where impacting an oak tree at 70 miles an hour or a head-on collision at 45 miles per…”

On the recordMarch 31, 2014
I cannot imagine any circumstance where impacting an oak tree at 70 miles an hour or a head-on collision at 45 miles per hour per vehicle would not be a situation where you did not want the deployment of the air bag.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess argues for the necessity of air bag deployment in severe crashes.

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