An additional 7 million cars of the same makes and model years were sold and may be on the road in other parts of the country, according to an analysis by Bloomberg of annual U.S. The manufacturers say they initiated the recalls at the advice of Takata and in consultation with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. including some more than a decade old - from 10 automakers. Over the past 18 months, mainly regional recalls have been issued on 7.8 million cars in the U.S. The latest reports come six years after Honda first recalled 4,000 Accords and Civics in the U.S. It claims the defendants concealed the extent of airbag dangers. 27 filed a proposed class-action suit in Florida against Takata and automakers including Honda, BMW, Ford, Nissan, and Toyota. Several law firms led by Labaton Sucharow on Oct. Honda, Takata’s largest customer, has so far confirmed two deaths and 30 injuries from the possible defect and is investigating two additional deaths in Florida and California. Takata declined to answer specific questions about deaths and injuries involving its airbags. And a Puerto Rico fender bender left a woman with her jaw sliced open. Another incident in that state resulted in gashes on a dead woman’s throat so similar to stab wounds that police thought she’d been murdered. One Florida crash left a young driver with a metal shard in her eye socket. Takata, which accounts for about a quarter of all airbag inflators produced globally, is finding it far more difficult to silence safety questions now that horrific details of shrapnel-induced injuries involving its products have made headlines in recent months. Joel Wooten, her attorney, says the terms are confidential and declines to discuss the case. Honda and Takata settled with Williams in 2011.
Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the airbag inflator. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - In 2010 the front seat airbags in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light.
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