National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, commonly called as NHTSA generated a report after investigating various factors which affect the airbags on Honda Motor Company’s (NASDAQ:HMC) Accord sedans that get failed to inflate, during the vehicle crash.
However, there are chances in favor of Honda as well because problems not related to the combustible air bag inflators made by Takata Corporation.
The investigation was launched after 19 complaints from customers regarding the airbags of the cars. The issue can be fixed if the entire airbag control module of the affected Accords is replaced. The airbag malfunctioning in Honda Accord is not similar to the previous recall.
“This also means that the safety of the vehicle passengers and operators are in jeopardy and potentially face serious injury or death”, another complainant wrote.
Previously Honda had to recall millions of its cars due to faulty Takata airbags.
The agency says in documents posted Friday that it received 19 consumer complaints that the air bag control computer failed in the Accord, which then was Honda’s top-selling model.
The issue is the airbag control module that seems to fail when it is needed.
Among the complaints filed to the NHTSA was that of a parent who said her son “ran into a concrete block wall” and that the “air bags did not deploy”. The vehicles will be recalled if NHTSA deems it necessary. The malfunction causes the air bag status lamp to illuminate, and the airbag system will be defunct until repaired. Several reports indicated that the SRS module was unable to communicate thus preventing diagnostic trouble codes from being retrieved.
American Honda Motor Co. said in a recent statement that it is aware of the NHTSA’s investigation, and added: “Honda will cooperate with the NHTSA through the investigation process, and we will continue our own internal review of the available information”.