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Auto Safety Regulators To Watch Unrecalled Takata Inflators After One Blows Apart, Injuring a Driver in Chicago

DETROIT (AP) – U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver …

Takata Airbag Led to Death in Louisiana Honda Civic Crash

Honda Motor Co.’s North American unit and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed on that a ruptured airbag inflator of Takata Corp. used in a Honda Civic caused the death of the driver on July 10. The 2004 model …

New Death Prompts ARC Airbag Probe in US, Canada

Auto safety regulators in two countries are investigating another deadly airbag problem that could affect up to 8 million vehicles. Investigators in the U.S. and Canada are looking into a crash in the Canadian province of Newfoundland in which a …