Air bags deployed and started smoking

- Clovis, NM, USA

While I was on the way home from work, I waited for the broken yellow line to pass 2 cars in front of me, when I was midway through passing both of them, the second car in line wanted to pass the car in front as well but did not look to see that I was already passing and right beside him, and jerked over and hit the side of me which caused me then to spin out of control and land in a ravine. The entire front side of my vehicle is coming off and I was jerked around in the car, but no airbag in the backseats nor driver seat came out, and my daughters car seat was flipped towards the window so thank god she was not in the vehicle when this happened.

- Fountain Inn, SC, USA

Our brand new 2019 Honda Accord, with about 1,000 miles on it, was involved in a front end motor vehicle collision on October 13, 2019 at 1:24 pm on a city street with a speed limit of 45 mph. We struck a 2001 F250 at 45 mph in the side after the individual failed to yield and stopped sideways directly in our lane of traffic. My Honda received serious front end damage and the engine compartment was smoking, but not a single air bag deployed during this accident. There were three (3) adults and one (1) child in the Honda, the child and two (2) adults were sent to the emergency room via ambulance. There were no major injuries other than severe bruising and some pulled muscles which were caused by the seat belts. The failure of the air bag deployment during a head on collision of this proportion is very disturbing and as a result we have lost complete faith and confidence in Honda's safety features. We are very thankful that the seat belts prevented us from slamming our heads into the dash and windshield, especially since our air bags failed us.

- Splendora, TX, USA

Takata recall on front air

- Watkinsville, GA, USA