Buick 1994 LeSabre Owner's Manual page 38

Where is the air bag?
The driver's air bag is in the middle of the steering
wheel. The right-front passenger's air bag is located in
the instrument panel on the passenger's side.
When is an air bag expected to inflate?
The air bag is designed to inflate in moderate to severe
frontal or near-frontal crashes. The air bag will only
inflate if the velocity of the impact is above the designed
threshold level. When impacting straight into a wall that
does not move or deform, the threshold level for
most GM vehicles is between
9
and
15
mph (14 and
23
km/h). However, this velocity threshold depends on
the vehicle design and may be several miles-per-hour
faster or slower. In addition, this threshold velocity will
be considerably higher if the vehicle strikes an object
such as a parked car which will move and deform on
impact. The air bag is also not designed to inflate in
rollovers, side impacts, or rear impacts where the
inflation would provide no occupant protection benefit.
It is possible that in a crash, only one of the two air bags
in your LeSabre will deploy. This is rare, but can happen
in a crash just severe enough to make an air bag inflate.
In any particular crash, the determination of whether the
air bag should have inflated cannot be based solely on
the level of damage on the vehicle(s). Inflation is
determined by the angle of the impact and the vehicle's
deceleration, of which vehicle damage is
only
one
indication. Repair cost is not a good indicator of
whether an air bag should have deployed.