Th air bags were deployed.
「エアバッグが開く、作動する」という場合にはdeployも使われます（cf. work, inflate）。これはdeployの語源がunfoldを意味するところからだと思われます。（EnDough）
Car Belonging to Nick Gordon, ‘Adopted Son’ of Whitney Houston, Found Wrecked
Police in Georgia have discovered a severely damaged car belonging to Nick Gordon, the rumored boyfriend of Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, in the parking lot of his apartment complex. They say the vehicle was involved in a front-end accident, though they cannot confirm that an accident was reported.
Officers were responding to a complaint of loud noises early on Tuesday morning at an apartment complex in Alpharetta, Ga., north of Atlanta, when they noticed the damaged car. Gordon, who lived with Brown and Houston from age 12, lives in the complex.
“We dispatched police officers, and when entering the parking gate we found a car that had already been wrecked,” Alpharetta Dept. of Public Safety Executive Officer George Gordon told ABC News.
While TMZ.com reported that the two were involved in a “scary car accident in Georgia,” Gordon said that he cannot confirm reports that Gordon and Brown were in an accident.
According to an incident report, the black 2012 Chevy Camero, registered to Gordon, was found “with extensive front end damage backed into a parking space on the [complex's] second level parking deck.”
“The vehicle also had emergency flashers on and the air bags were deployed,” the report says. “It appears that the vehicle was in a front end collision … it was apparent that the vehicle was driven into the parking deck already damaged.”
