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Honda is recalling more than 300,000 vehicles over faulty seat belts. ... wearing a seat belt in a passenger car decreases the likelihood of death by 45% and reduces the risk of moderate and ...
Honda is recalling select 2023-2024 Accord and HR-V vehicles due to a missing piece in the front seat belt pretensioners, which could increase injury risks during a crash. According to notices ...
The auto maker identified a defect that could stop front seat belts in some 2023 and 2024 vehicles from tightening properly in a crash. Honda recalls almost 304,000 Accords and HR-Vs over seat ...
According to the recall, the seat belts in the front seats would break open on impact increasing the risk of injury in a crash. [41] On 21 December 2023, Honda announced a global recall of about 4.5 million vehicles, including 2.54 million in the US, over fuel pump failures, following earlier recalls in 2021 and 2020 for the same issue. [42]
The recall was prompted by an investigation (PE94-052) carried out by the NHTSA on Honda vehicles, after owners reported seat belt buckles either failing to latch, latching and releasing automatically, or releasing in accidents. It revealed that potentially faulty Takata seat belts were not limited only to Honda vehicles, but to other Japanese ...
The first commercial car to use automatic seat belts was the 1975 Volkswagen Golf. [56] Automatic seat belts received a boost in the United States in 1977 when Brock Adams, United States Secretary of Transportation in the Carter Administration, mandated that by 1983 every new car should have either airbags or automatic seat belts.
Documents posted Tuesday by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say that the front passenger seat weight sensor may cra Honda is recalling more than 750,000 vehicles to fix ...
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile is a non-fiction book by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, first published in 1965.Its central theme is that car manufacturers resisted the introduction of safety features (such as seat belts), and that they were generally reluctant to spend money on improving safety.