Honda admits faulty air bag, inflator for women’s death
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A MALAYSIAN woman who died in a car accident due to a defective air bag manufactured by Takata Corp was pregnant and perished with her unborn baby, Japanese automaker Honda said yesterday.
Jordhatt Johan, head of public relations with Honda Malaysia, said the driver-side air bag in the woman’s 2003 Honda City deployed abnormally and its inflator broke when the vehicle crashed into another car in the July 27 incident. Honda was notified about the accident a month later, he said.
“The woman died, unfortunately, and her foetus died too,” Jordhatt said. “The cause of death was due to the rupture of the inflator.”
Faulty inflators can explode, hurling shrapnel toward drivers and passengers.
Global recalls related to air bags manufactured by Japan’s Takata number more than 12 million vehicles and the Malaysian death is the fifth worldwide.
The other four deaths were in the United States.
Honda has already recalled millions of vehicles and this week expanded its recalls after getting new information about the fatality in July.
Jordhatt said Honda only recently learnt that the inflator was defective in driver-side air bags because Takata failed to control the humidity during production. Jordhatt said that globally, Honda is recalling 170,699 vehicles due to the faulty driver-side air bags.
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