FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—When Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrived at a crash scene in the Panhandle this summer, they found a 23-year-old Navy officer dead at the wheel with neck wounds that initially looked like a possible shooting.
A trooper later messaged the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that injuries were from the deployment of an air bag in the 2006 Ford Ranger pickup in the July accident in Pensacola.
