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Honda Reports Another Fatal Crash Involving Takata Airbag Inflator
Honda Motor Co. has reported a fourth fatal crash in Malaysia this year in which a Takata Corp. airbag inflator exploded in one of the company’s cars.
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Honda Motor Co. has reported a fourth fatal crash in Malaysia this year in which a Takata Corp. airbag inflator exploded in one of the company’s cars.
Reuters says the death occurred on Sept. 24 in Johor and involved a 2009 model Honda City minicar. Details about the victim were not immediately available. But Honda confirms the car was part of a recall announced 15 months ago to replace the Takata-supplied inflator for the driver’s frontal airbag.
Honda said in August it was ready to resume a recall of 390,000 cars in Malaysia to replace their Takata inflators. The company said at the time it had fixed 45% of the targeted devices but that the process had been slowed by a shortage of replacement inflators.
At least 14 deaths have been blamed on exploding Takata inflators, all but one of them involving Honda vehicles. More than a dozen carmakers are recalling some 100 million Takata inflators worldwide, including about 70 million in the U.S.
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