Are car horns rigged to go off in accidents?

AskBBQ: Since the car accident I was in, in which my car horn jammed until some kind Samaritan yanked a wire, I’ve been wondering…

Are car’s horns rigged in some way to sound when the airbags deploy or when there is a severe front-end crash, either as a warning to others or (less likely to me) as a way to locate a wreck? Or is it just a common side effect for the horn to get stuck?

If it is just a common side effect, is it something that happens under the hood, or the fact that the horn “buttons” are next to the airbag on the steering wheel and thus get pressed on by the airbag?

What wire did my Good Samaritan yank to quiet the horn? The battery?

Posted by IndigoRain

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