Stellantis Confirms Third Takata Airbag Death, Urges 274,000 Owners To Get Repairs | Carscoops carscoops
In a statement, the automaker said the owner of the vehicle inquired about the airbag recall in 2018, but declined to schedule the installation of a replacement airbag at that time. As a result, the company “continued to send urgent notifications to this owner through 2022, contributing to a total of 114 outreach attempts over a seven-year period.”
Unfortunately, those attempts were in vain and this had tragic consequences as the owner of the vehicle loaned it to a family member in July. While driving it, they were involved in a crash where the driver’s airbag ruptured on deployment. Stellantis didn’t elaborate, but when the airbags rupture, they typically spew shrapnel at the driver’s face and neck.
, and Dodge Magnums – from the 2005 to 2010 model years – that haven’t had their Takata airbags replaced. That number has now dropped to around 274,000 vehicles, but that’s far too many with a potentially deadly airbag.Stellantis’ Global Head of Technical Safety and Regulatory Compliance, Tom McCarthy, said “Time is a critical element here because the risk increases with each day these airbag inflators go unreplaced.
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