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The government is urging almost five million drivers to get immediate action to defend themselves towards defective airbags airbags that a security skilled says can explode in the automobile and harm passengers.

This message comes with urgency, reads a submit on the internet site for the Nationwide Highway Traffic Security Administration, as it urges owners of specified Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan and General Motors cars to act quickly on recall http://www.kentwongphoto.com/ notices to change defective Takata airbags. The message is specially urgent for drivers in warm climates like Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands, NHTSA said.

The NHTSA lists a lot more than 4.seven million autos with model many years from 2000 to 2006 in addition to the 2011 Honda Component -- that have been topic to connected recalls over the previous two many years and urge owners to consider them to their dealers.

Auto security professional Sean Kane advised ABC Information the issue with the Takata airbags is its internal inflator.

[Its] the canister which sits in the center of the airbag, its like a metal can, Kane mentioned. When thats ignited, its overpressurizing the canister and the canister is exploding, much like an IED [improvised explosive device], and sending shrapnel into the occupants of the motor vehicle.

Kane explained that the explosions have caused significant lacerations and a reported 4 deaths.

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Earlier this month Florida female Hien Tran was killed in a mysterious automobile accident in which she was identified with stab-like wounds to her neck, according to The Orlando Sentinel. Last week, detectives established the injuries had been steady with... exploding airbags bags.

A week after Trans death, Trans family members reportedly obtained a recall recognize from Honda urging them to substitute the 2001 Accords airbag.

In a submit on its site today, Toyota issued its own supplemental safety recall for much more than a quarter million vehicles with airbags supplied by Takata, saying the influence of substantial absolute humidity in the malfunctions is beneath investigation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLubHYpkZQgToyota mentioned that it has not acquired any reviews of injuries or deaths linked to the concern.

NHTSA opened an investigation into the airbags in June and in response, Takata https://www.facebook.com/amazingweddinghk