SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Potholes are found all over Bay Area roads and for one unlikely driver — she hit a big one in her BMW last week that set off her airbags.
“The minute I hit the pothole, I hear this BOOM!”
The Bay Area woman didn’t want to speak on camera, but showed KRON4 her car and the damage.
“It’s like a deafening boom,” she said. “I thought maybe a tire had blown or something but none of my tires blew. Just literally the side curtain airbag and the door air bag on the passenger side had blown out of the car.”
Her dash camera caught a bit of her commute on Interstate 280 north, but just as she got off the Geneva/Ocean Avenue exit and hit the pothole, the camera broke.
“The car was full of the smell of airbags, you know, the chemicals that go off and I’m thinking, this can’t be happening,” she told KRON4. “This isn’t real. My tires not blown. How does a pothole make a car blow air bags?”
The estimate she received at an auto body shop is more than what her 2001 BMW is worth.
She’s put a claim in to Caltrans to see if they’ll pay for the damage.
But the agency told KRON4 they only pay if someone had previously reported about the pothole.
If no one complained — they say the driver is responsible.
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