In the ongoing legal aspects and expanding lawsuits in the Takata air bag matter, a Houston product-liability law firm, Perdue & Kidd, filed an action against Honda Motor and Takata yesterday claiming that the airbag in Carlos Solis’s Honda Accord was defective and killed him after deploying in a minor collision.
Solis’s Honda Accord was bought used in 2014 at a Houston area car dealer. The car had been recalled in late 2011, but it had never been repaired. Plaintiff’s lawyers claim that Solis never received notice of the fix for a safety related recall.
He was driving a 2002 Honda Accord in Spring, Texas when he was involved in a minor wreck with another car. The driver side airbag engaged and inflated in the collision. A large piece of metal from the airbag inflator exploded through the airbag. The shrapnel entered Solis’s neck, severed his carotid artery and jugular vein, fractured his windpipe, and lodged in his shoulder and cervical spine.
