User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Trucks World News: RECALLS * Canada: Airbag crisis
Google
 
Loading

Oct 26, 2014

RECALLS * Canada: Airbag crisis

* Ontario - The vehicles in Canada that are affected


(Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: This undated photo provided by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a crash test of a 2003 Toyota Corolla, one of the models subject to a recall to repair faulty air bags. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is warning 7.8 million car owners that inflator mechanisms in the air bags can rupture, causing metal fragments to fly out when the bags are deployed) 
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -The Globe and Mail -Oct. 24 2014: -- Defective airbags have caused auto makers to recall nearly 3.4 million older model vehicles worldwide, including at least 200,000 in Canada... The U.S. government warned more than 7.8 million people to have air bags in their cars fixed amid concern that a defect can kill or injure the driver or passengers. Degraded airbags can send the equivalent of shrapnel flying into the front compartment... The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA), is warning 7.8 million car owners that inflator mechanisms in the air bags can rupture, causing metal fragments to fly out when the bags are deployed... The warning covers cars made by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan, General Motors and Ford. The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating the Japanese airbag supplier, Takata Corp. Its defective airbags are suspected to have been a factor in four deaths... Meanwhile, Transport Canada told The Globe and Mail that no complaints have been received in this country...

Labels: ,

posted by Unknown @ 7:05 AM 

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home