http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2005/12/25/local/10002831.txt
Andrea Hahn
"Schubert said airbags, which began to appear in automobiles in the early 1980s, are often collected as evidence in vehicle crashes. Hairs, fabric fibers, DNA traces - all may contribute to the evidence identifying the driver or passenger in a vehicle after airbag deployment. The singe marks are another tool, he said. Schubert's findings appear in the November 2005 edition of the 'Journal of Forensic Science,' the official professional journal for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences."