Airbag Deployment

This case involves a head-on collision between two cars with a closing velocity of approximately 90 miles an hour where the air bag failed to deploy. Upon testing of the various components, it was determined that the air bag itself was not defective and the air bag module (the “brain” of the air bag mechanism) was not defective, however, the sensors that are supposed to trigger deployment were. In order to demonstrate this defect, we tood the actual air bag from the vehicle and applied to it the minimum electric current for the minimum amount of time which should have deployed the air bag and then recorded the deployment of the air bag in real time (Air Bag Deployment 1) and at super slow motion filmed at 1200 frames per second (Air Bag Deployment 2).

Defective Gun Testing

This video shows a 9mm semi-automatic pistol made by Bryco/Jennings Firearms in Costa Mesa, California. We have sued the manufacturer of these pistols a number of times, and currently have a case pending regarding the wrongful death of a young man when one of these pistols went “fully automatic.” In this video clip, our expert witness is test firing a Bryco Model 59 9mm pistol, one of five that were purchased at random around the county for the purpose of testing their durability. As you can see in this video, not only did the pistol repeatedly misfire, but it actually blew apart, blowing parts back into the forehead of our expert witness. It should be noted that less than fifty rounds had been fired through this pistol at the time it came apart on our expert witness.

Bullet in Spine

The young man whose spine is depicted in this video clip had just finished cleaning and reloading his Bryco/Jennings Firearm pistol and was preparing to put it away, when the pistol went fully automatic. In other words, without pulling the trigger, this pistol started to fire automatically without human intervention. As the gun continued to fire, the Plaintiff dropped the pistol and the last bullet that fired penetrated his body through the seat of his chair, up into his spinal column. His neurosurgeon, believing that it would be more dangerous to remove the bullet than to leave it in place, did not remove the bullet. This video was obtained approximately 1 year later, when the Plaintiff continued to complain of pain in his back. We sent this gentleman to a new neurosurgeon who obtained these films. What you are watching is a myeleogram, where the Plaintiff was placed on a fluoroscopy table and tilted head down and then head up. What you are seeing is the bullet flowing up and down his spinal column through a track made when the bullet penetrated his spine. This bullet was subsequently removed by tilting the patient up until the bullet drifted down to the lowest point in his spine where it was surgically extracted.

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Fully Automatic Fire

Here is another Bryco/Jennings Firearm .380 caliber pistol which killed a young man when it went fully automatic. In this clip, you can see that the test firer never puts his finger on the trigger and yet when the slide is released, this pistol discharged all of the rounds in the magazine almost instantaneously. This video was obtained by us in the case of Arobogast v. Jerry’s Sports, currently pending in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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