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Owners of Some 2003 Ram Pickups Urged to Not Drive Them After Another Takata Air Bag Inflator Death

July 12, 2023
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Stellanis is urging owners of unrepaired 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 pickups to stop driving the vehicles immediately until they are serviced, following another rupture fatality involving a defective Takata airbag inflator. The incident in May is the first reported for the model involving a Takata passenger-side bag, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said…

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AAA Issues Alert to Drivers After ‘Do Not Drive’ Notice Issued

February 24, 2023
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The AAA issued a notice to drivers Friday to check their vehicles for recalls after Honda recently issued a “do no drive” warning for vehicles that haven’t received repairs for Takata Alpha air bag inflators. “Ignoring Takata air bag recall notices can have fatal consequences,” the Northeast AAA said in a news release to multiple news…

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Volkswagen Recalls Beetles to Replace Takata Air Bags

December 30, 2022
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Volkswagen is recalling nearly 42,000 Beetles in the U.S. and Canada because they have potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The recall covers Beetles from the 2015 and 2016 model years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Friday that the inflators can explode with too much force and hurl shrapnel. Takata…

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NHTSA Opens New Investigation Into Takata Airbags

September 20, 2021
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SILVER SPRING, Md.—The U.S. government’s highway safety regulator has opened an investigation into a potential problem that surfaced last year with 56 million Takata airbags but that the agency eventually deemed safe based on industry research. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not posted an official document on the investigation yet, but said that…

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South Carolina Driver Killed by Exploding Air Bag Inflator

April 22, 2021
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DETROIT—A driver in South Carolina is the latest person to be killed by an exploding Takata air bag inflator. Honda said Wednesday that a faulty driver’s air bag blew apart in a crash involving a 2002 Honda Accord in Lancaster County, South Carolina. The company wouldn’t give details of the Jan. 9 crash near Charlotte,…

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