3 latest fatalities convey Takata airbag demise toll to 32

DETROIT — Three extra folks have been killed prior to now seven months by Takata airbag inflators that exploded and hurled shrapnel. Stellantis, previously Fiat Chrysler, mentioned Wednesday that 276,000 house owners of older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles shouldn’t drive them till the airbags are changed. The vehicles had been recalled in 2015.

The three latest fatalities convey the worldwide demise toll from Takata airbag inflators to not less than 32, with 23 within the U.S.

Many tens of millions of recalled automobiles are nonetheless on the highway, regardless of automakers’ makes an attempt to contact house owners. The issue is especially acute if you’re not the unique purchaser of the automobile and an automaker would not know you are the present proprietor. To test to see in case your automobile is concerned within the Takata airbag recall, go to the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration recall web site and search for your VIN quantity.

These deaths have occurred since Might 2009:

— Might 27, 2009: Ashley Parham, 18, of Midwest Metropolis, Oklahoma, 2001 Honda Accord

— Dec. 24, 2009: Gurjit Rathore, 33, of Richmond, Virginia, 2001 Honda Accord

— Sept. 13, 2013: Hai Ming Xu, of Alhambra, California, 2002 Acura TL

— July 27, 2014: Legislation Suk Leh of Sibu, Malaysia, 2003 Honda Metropolis

— Sept. 7, 2014: Jewel Brangman, 26, of California, 2001 Honda Civic

— Sept. 29, 2014: Hien Thi Tran, 51, of Orlando, Florida, 2001 Honda Accord

— Jan. 18, 2015: Carlos Solis, 35, of Spring, Texas, 2002 Honda Accord

— April 15, 2015: Kylan Langlinais, 23, of Lafayette, Louisiana, 2005 Honda Accord

— July 22, 2015: Unidentified 13-year-old boy, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 2001 Honda Accord

— Dec. 22, 2015: Joel Knight, 52, of Kershaw, South Carolina, 2006 Ford Ranger

— March 31, 2016: Huma Hanif, 17, of Fort Bend County, Texas, 2002 Honda Civic

— April 16, 2016: Unidentified particular person, Sabah State, Malaysia, 2006 Honda Metropolis. Inflator ruptured, no demise trigger decided.

— Might 1, 2016: Unidentified particular person, Malaysia, 2003 Honda Metropolis. Inflator ruptured, no demise trigger decided.

— June, 2016: Unidentified particular person in Malaysia. Inflator ruptured, no demise trigger decided.

—June 19, 2016: Ramon Kuffo, 81, Hialeah, Florida. Inflator ruptured whereas he was repairing inside of automobile.

— Sept. 24, 2016: Unidentified driver, Johor State, Malaysia, 2009 Honda Metropolis. Inflator ruptured, no demise trigger decided.

— Sept. 30, 2016: Delia Robles, 50, of Corona, California, 2001 Honda Civic.

— July 1, 2017: Steve Mollohan, 56, of West Virginia, 2006 Ford Ranger.

— July 10, 2017: George R. Sharp, 61, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2004 Honda Civic.

— July 13, 2017: Unidentified 58-year-old man in suburban Sydney, 2007 Honda CR-V.

— July 19, 2017: Nichol Lynn Barker, 34, of Vacation, Florida, 2002 Honda Accord.

— Jan. 1, 2018: Unidentified driver in central Selangor state, Malaysia, 2004 Honda Metropolis.

— Might 27, 2018: Unidentified driver in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004 Honda Metropolis.

— June 11, 2018: Armando V. Ortega, 55, of Yuma, Arizona, 2002 Honda Civic.

— Unknown date: Unidentified driver of a 1998 BMW 3 Collection automobile in unknown location in Australia. BMW mentioned it turned conscious of the demise in September 2019.

— Aug. 20, 2020: Unidentified driver, Mesa Arizona, 2002 Honda Civic.

— Sept. of 2020: Unidentified BMW driver, Arizona.

— Jan. 9, 2021: Unidentified driver, 2002 Honda Accord, Lancaster County, South Carolina.

— July 7, 2022: Hayden Jones Jr., 23, of Pensacola, Florida, 2006 Ford Ranger.

— April, 2022 by way of Nov. 3, 2022: Three unidentified drivers of Stellantis vehicles. Firm says two had been killed by ruptured inflators in separate crashes. A 3rd demise is suspected to have been brought on by a Takata inflator. All three crashes had been in warm-weather, high-humidity U.S. states. Stellantis and NHTSA wouldn’t give places or establish victims.

Sources: Related Press archives, Middle for Auto Security, U.S. Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, Honda Motor Co., Stellantis N.V., relations, authorized paperwork and police studies.