2000 Mazda MPV air bags problems

Tl*the contact owns a 2000 mazda mpv. The contact was involved in a front end, three car crash. Her vehicle was rear ended and she crashed into the preceding vehicle at 25 MPH. The air bags failed to deploy. The driver and two passengers were injured. The vehicle was destroyed. A police report was filed and the contact has photos. The current and failure mileages were 81,000.

I was trying to start my "new" used mazda mpv using ether sprayed into the air filter-box through a small hole, and my driver's-side -impact airbag went off when I turned the ignition key. I was parked in my driveway at the time. I had been trying to start the car for several minutes, and had sprayed "starting fluid" into the box one other time several minutes before. This process had worked for me two times in the past with no problem.