Swag_Grenade t1_is9gk0j wrote on October 14, 2022 at 7:38 AM

Reply to comment by coelurosauravus in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713

Damn I drive a 2008 Civic I'm gonna have to check on this. This is the first time I've even heard of any of this shit, kind of agitating TBH.

I did get into an accident in a 2007 Civic where the airbags deployed, luckily no one's fucking neck was sliced open. Didn't think too much of it since, but what the fuck.

coelurosauravus t1_is9z30x wrote on October 14, 2022 at 11:43 AM

https://www.recalls.gov/nhtsa.html

Get your VIN of your car and check that. I didn't see civics from your year when I was doing field work but it does not mean it wasn't affected