Airbag

IIHS hopes that, by incorporating DAMAGE into its analysis of crash tests, it will be able to inform improvements to airbag design that can reduce the risk of brain injuries.

Mazda and Fiat parent company Stellantis are recalling some of their model-year 2016-23 MX-5 Miata and model-year 2017-20 124 Spider coupes, respectively, due to airbag deployment issues affecting approximately 93,500 vehicles.

BMW is recalling some 394,000 3 Series models for Takata airbags, this time examples that may not have had anything to do with the recall initially.

The passenger occupant detection system may experience a fault in the wiring and deactivate the front passenger airbag when the seat is occupied, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.

Toyota is recalling some 145,000 examples of its Grand Highlander and Lexus TX SUVs for an issue involving the vehicles’ airbags.

More than 750,100 vehicles under the automaker and its Acura luxury brand are affected by a faulty airbag seat sensor.

In an investigation of potentially defective airbag inflators that dates to 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is pushing for the recall of 52 million inflators manufactured between the year 2000 and January 2018.

A traffic fatality involving a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 that occurred back in May has been potentially linked to the ongoing Takata airbag inflator recall.

Approximately 96,000 Corolla Cross SUVs are being recalled for faulty front passenger airbags.

The culprit for GM’s latest major recall involves a serious defect affecting nearly 995,000 SUVs: exploding airbags.