coelurosauravus t1_is8qi9j wrote on October 14, 2022 at 2:53 AM

Reply to comment by asukamainforlife in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713

I was one of the guys who was going into junkyards to confirm the status of those inflators, eventually the salvage yards jumped on to programs Honda worked with that would buy the inflators out of the yard and ensure their destruction, or get back to Honda for testing purposes to monitor failure rates