Shrapnel-Shooting Airbags May Have Claimed First Houston Victim

Last year, when the New York Times started to break stories about airbags were exploding in cars, sending metal and plastic shrapnel into drivers that made them look like stabbing victims, the issue was particularly concerning to anyone living along the Gulf Coast. As the recalls began to mushroom -- in the United States alone, ten automakers have now recalled some 12 million vehicles that carry faulty airbag inflators from the Japanese company Takata -- the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began to issue targeted notices to humid regions in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana.

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