Abstract: A anti-crash apparatus for motorvehicles with an airbag designed to be automatically inflated on deceleration of the vehicle being greater than a certain amount, the airbag being placed on the driver's side of a steering wheel shaft, which is at a slope of 10.degree. to 60.degree. to the horizontal within the steering wheel and on the driver's side of steering wheel spokes. The airbag is so placed and designed that, on inflation thereof, it takes up a position on the driver's side of a top third of the circumference of the steering wheel, its size measured in a direction normal to the plane of the steering wheel being less than 20 cm.

Abstract: A steering device for a vehicle comprises a steering wheel having one spoke and supported by a steering shaft, a shock proof dished plate carrying operating controls, indicating instruments on an outer surface of the plate facing a driver of the vehicle and a construction element immovably attached to the vehicle. The steering device is provided with two displaceable coupling elements which couple the dished plate to the construction element so that when one of the coupling elements is in its coupling position by engaging in one of the passages formed in the dished plate, the other coupling element is allowed to come out from its coupling position by disengaging out of another one of the passages of the dished plate to thus prevent the dished plate from rotating with the steering wheel.