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WASHINGTON, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. traffic authority on Thursday announced an urgent recall of about 313,000 Honda and Acura cars due to high safety risk of their Takata airbags.
The defective Takata airbag inflator in certain model-year 2001-2003 Honda and Acura cars show as high as 50 percent of ruptures during airbag deployment, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
"With as high as 50 percent change of a dangerous air bag inflator rupture in a crash, these vehicles are unsafe and need to be repaired immediately," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
"Folks should not drive these vehicles unless they are going straight to a dealer to have them repaired immediately, free of charge," said Foxx.
Ruptures of the inflators in Takata's airbags have caused ten deaths and more than 100 injuries in the United States, while eight fatalities were in this population of vehicles, said NHTSA.
Nearly 70 million Takata airbag inflators are or will be under recall by 2019, the largest and most complex auto safety recall in U.S. history.
