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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 06:29 PM
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Safety group wants Honda fined over recall
Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: December 05. 2011 6:17PM
Safety group wants Honda fined over recall
David Shepardson/ Detroit News Washington Bureau


Washington —An auto safety advocacy group wants the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to fine Honda Motor Co. over its recall of more than 2.7 million vehicles for an airbag defect that's been linked to two deaths.

The Center for Auto Safety said in a letter Monday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it wants a civil penalty against Honda "for failing to initiate a timely recall of defective driver airbag inflators that rupture and send shrapnel into the driver."

Honda didn't immediately comment on the letter Monday.

On Friday, Honda said it was recalling 876,000 vehicles in the United States for airbag problems. It's the fifth separate recall for the issue since 2008.


Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20111205/AUTO01/112050431/1361/Safety-group-wants-Honda-fined-over-recall
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