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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this morning verified another Takata airbag inflator rupture fatality, bringing the total number of Takata fatalities confirmed this year to five on vehicles that were recalled.
One person died in a recent crash in a 2010 Chrysler 300 where the Takata driver’s side air bag inflator ruptured – sending shrapnel into the interior. This brings the total of Takata fatalities to 24, and the third confirmed this year in a Fiat Chrysler sedan.
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NHTSA is “urging ALL vehicle owners to immediately check to see if their vehicle has an open Takata air bag recall. If it does, owners need to contact their dealership to schedule a FREE repair as soon as possible and follow any warnings from the vehicle manufacturer.” (AutoInformed.com on: Takata Pleads Guilty of Falsifying Data on Airbag Shrapnel; FCA US Eliminates Use of Non-Desiccated Ammonium Nitrate Takata Air-bag Inflators)
For Takata information for specific vehicle manufacturers, click here. For more information from NHTSA on the Takata air bag safety recall, click here.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, publisher (kzhw@aol.com), is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn.
Zino is at home on test tracks, knows his way around U.S. Congressional hearing rooms, auto company headquarters, plant floors, as well as industry research and development labs where the real mobility work is done. He can quote from court decisions, refer to instrumented road tests, analyze financial results, and profile executive personalities and corporate cultures.
He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe.
Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap.
AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks.
Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
NHTSA Verifies Additional Chrysler Takata Fatality
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this morning verified another Takata airbag inflator rupture fatality, bringing the total number of Takata fatalities confirmed this year to five on vehicles that were recalled.
One person died in a recent crash in a 2010 Chrysler 300 where the Takata driver’s side air bag inflator ruptured – sending shrapnel into the interior. This brings the total of Takata fatalities to 24, and the third confirmed this year in a Fiat Chrysler sedan.
For more information click here.
NHTSA is “urging ALL vehicle owners to immediately check to see if their vehicle has an open Takata air bag recall. If it does, owners need to contact their dealership to schedule a FREE repair as soon as possible and follow any warnings from the vehicle manufacturer.” (AutoInformed.com on: Takata Pleads Guilty of Falsifying Data on Airbag Shrapnel; FCA US Eliminates Use of Non-Desiccated Ammonium Nitrate Takata Air-bag Inflators)
For Takata information for specific vehicle manufacturers, click here. For more information from NHTSA on the Takata air bag safety recall, click here.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, publisher (kzhw@aol.com), is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. Zino is at home on test tracks, knows his way around U.S. Congressional hearing rooms, auto company headquarters, plant floors, as well as industry research and development labs where the real mobility work is done. He can quote from court decisions, refer to instrumented road tests, analyze financial results, and profile executive personalities and corporate cultures. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.