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A safety device for restraining and deflating an airbag. The safety device 10 is intended to be used by rescue personnel at vehicle accident scenes to prevent the risk of injury to rescue personnel and/or an accident victim from an inadvertent deployment of a vehicle's driver's side self-inflating restraint, commonly referred to, and referred to herein, as an airbag. The safety device 10 is securable to a conventional steering wheel 12 and provides a rigid barrier between the steering wheel 12 and a rescuer or accident victim. The safety device 10 includes a rigid, shield member 15, having a front 17 side and a back side 18. At least one cutting member 20 for rupturing the airbag upon deployment is disposed on the back side 18 of the shield member 15. A cage member 30 depends from the back side 18 of the shield member 15 and receives a first portion 32 of the steering wheel 12. The cage member 30 cooperates with a locking member 50, and is in spaced relation from the locking member 50 which receives a second portion of the steering wheel 12, in order to fix the safety device 10 to the steering wheel 12 in a positive locking manner.
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