US safety agency probes Honda Accord air bag failures - KRQE News 13
30, 2010 file photo, a man looks at Honda Motor Co. 's Civic hybrid cars in front of the Japanese automaker's headquarters in Tokyo. Slow sales and falling gasoline prices have prompted Honda to stop selling gas-electric hybrid and natural gas-powered versions of its Civic compact car, the automaker said Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File) DETROIT (AP) — U. S.... The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 384,000 cars from the 2008 model year. The agency says in documents posted Friday that it received 19 consumer complaints that the air bag control computer failed in the Accord, which then was Honda’s top-selling model. A driver in Belleview, Florida, was injured when his car hit a concrete wall at 50 miles per hour and the air bags didn’t inflate, according to a complaint filed with the agency. Several others complained that the computer had to be replaced to fix the problem and they were charged around $500. “This also means that the safety of the vehicle passengers and operators are in jeopardy and potentially face serious injury or... People filing complaints are not identified in the agency’s database. The agency says the malfunction causes the air bag warning light to illuminate on the dashboard and disables the air bags until repairs are made. Source: krqe.com
