ahm713
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
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Reply to 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
> It’s also humid down in Florida where, in September 2014, Hien Tran was driving home from her family’s nail salon in Orlando.
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>Like Ms Parham, she had a relatively minor crash in a Honda Accord. But when paramedics arrived they couldn’t understand the scene before them. She had suffered a slash through her jugular vein.
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>“Deep cuts on the right side of her neck were not consistent with crash injuries,” a report from the paramedics stated.
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>“There were no windows broken ... that would cause sharp glass to penetrate a human’s body. Therefore, the force of the crash was not significant enough to cause great bodily harm to any occupant in both vehicles.”
> >It looked like Ms Tran had been stabbed, reported the New York Times. Initially, police looked into why someone might murder the Vietnamese immigrant, who never regained consciousness and later died.
> >It was only when, a week later, a letter from Honda came through the post asking Ms Tran to get her car’s airbags fixed that police realised that was the cause.
It is truly horrifying that millions of cars worldwide are still affected and that there are probably many unrecognised deaths that are probably attributed to those airbags.