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There are sensors strategically placed around the car to trigger the airbags. And that can mean only triggering the front airbag or airbags (depending on if the passenger one was "turned on" or not) or the side airbags or both. This accident must have just missed them and I would be glad that they didn't deploy given the amount of damage they cause which really adds on to the repair bill and time. Also, they may have purposely not gone off due to the way you were hit. Sometimes the airbags deploying can do more harm than good and they've gotten pretty good at programming the system to provide the best protection for the occupants.