Yahoo – AFP,
23 June 2014
Japan's Honda Motor on Monday recalled more than two million vehicles worldwide over an airbag defect that could pose a fire risk.
A worker
inspects a Honda Accord car model at the Honda assembly plant
in the southern
Chinese city of Guangzhou, on January 17, 2003 (AFP Photo/
Peter Parks)
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Japan's Honda Motor on Monday recalled more than two million vehicles worldwide over an airbag defect that could pose a fire risk.
Honda said
the recall covers about 2,033,000 vehicles which were produced between August
2000 and December 2005, including over one million in North America and 668,000
in Japan.
Subject to
the recall are a total of 13 types of vehicles including popular Fit and Accord
models.
Front
passenger airbag inflators could have been assembled with an improperly
manufactured propellant component, Japan's third largest automaker said.
That could
cause the container of the inflator to rupture in the event of a crash, posing
a fire risk or injuring passengers, it added.
The same
inflator problem has also caused top automaker Toyota to recall millions of
vehicles globally.
Toyota has
earlier said it acted as it received a complaint from a Japanese customer who
said his passenger seat was burned from the defect.
Honda said
the company had received no complaint or reports of injuries on its own.
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