The recently identified defect came to light after Brandi Owens of Georgia filed a lawsuit against General Motors and Takata, Reuters reported. Owens was blinded in one eye because of an air-bag explosion caused during an automobile accident. GM and Takata reviewed photographs of the accident and th
Date: Nov 01, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Report: Air Bag Accident, Lawsuit Led to GM Cruze Recall
The lawsuit by Brandi Owens, filed in late April in federal court in Atlanta against GM and Takata, claims her car and driver-side air bag were "defective and unreasonably dangerous," citing a problem that has dogged Takata for several years - air bag inflators that explode with too much force. More