The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has said it will examine whether Honda failed to report deaths or injuries involving airbags that are part of the regulators’ investigation into faulty equipment supplied by Takata to a number of OEMs.
Regulators have given Honda three weeks to answer questions about how it has treated accident reports for more than a decade.
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“Honda and the other automakers are legally obligated to report this information to us and failure to do so will not be tolerated,” NHTSA Deputy Administrator David Friedman said in a statement.
In a statement, the NHTSA said that it has received information indicating that Honda failed to report incidents involving Takata airbags.
“NHTSA is also concerned that Honda’s reporting failures go beyond the Takata incidents,” the statement said.
The faulty Takata airbags can explode with excessive force and spray metal shards into vehicle occupants.
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