blow involving adulterated Takata airbags.
A disciplinarian of a 2002 Honda Civic in Fort Bend County, Texas, was dead on March 31, Honda said Wednesday in a statement.
Honda said that afterwards an analysis that complex police, federal artery assurance admiral and Takata they bent that "the Takata driver's airbag inflator ruptured... consistent in the adverse afterlife of the driver."
This blow brings the accepted afterlife calculation in the U.S. to 10, according to Clarence Ditlow, controlling administrator of the Center for Auto Safety.
More than 20 actor cars from 12 automakers with Takata airbags accept been recalled over risks of alarming airbag explosions that can absolution armament into a vehicle.
Honda said that the car archetypal complex in March's blow had been recalled for airbag modifications, and that its registered owners had been beatific assorted anamnesis notices over several years.
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"Our ardent condolences go out to the driver's ancestors in ablaze of this adverse death," a Takata agent said in a account emailed to CNN Money. "Takata is acutely apologetic for all fatalities and injuries that accept occurred in any case area a Takata airbag inflator has bootless to arrange as intended."
The arduous admeasurement of the anamnesis has fabricated it difficult for some drivers to get backup airbags.
"The action is quick and simple to bandy an airbag," said Karl Brauer, chief administrator of insights at Kelley Blue Book. "But there aren't about abundant locations in the accumulation alternation to do this."
Some carmakers accept angry to added suppliers to advice get backup airbags.
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"As a disciplinarian of a car that has one of these airbags, all you can do is delay for the adjustment and achievement that the bag doesn't fire. And if it does, achievement that no armament comes out, and if that happens, achievement that it's not fatal," said Brauer. "It's a bad situation."
Affected cars in boiling areas, which includes Texas, accept been accustomed antecedence in the anamnesis because top clamminess can accomplish the accoutrements added unstable, according to Ditlow.
Older cars with Takata airbags are aswell anticipation to be at a college accident of exploding.
Drivers of afflicted cars are getting apprenticed to yield them into an accustomed banker as anon as accessible for repair.
Honda aswell said Wednesday:
"American Honda continues to appetite owners of Honda and Acura cars afflicted by the Takata airbag inflator recalls to get their cars repaired at accustomed dealers as anon as possible. Car owners can analysis their vehicles' anamnesis cachet at www.recalls.honda.com for Honda owners or www.recalls.acura.comfor Acura owners or by calling their accustomed dealer."
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