Takata Airbag Recall Deaths – How many? And How many more?
June, 2015
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Important questionsraised: How many deaths have occurred and how many more will occur before all defective airbags are replaced?
A lawsuit has been filed on a recent tragedy.
“The mother of a Lafayette woman killed in an April accident on Johnston Street has filed suit against Honda Motor Company and the maker of an air bag installed in Kylan Rae Langlinais’ 2005 Civic, claiming the companies knew years ago the air bag was defective and prone to spraying deadly shrapnel during a crash.
Langlinais died April 9 in a Lafayette hospital, four days after she drove her Honda into a utility pole in the 2000 block of Johnston Street.
Langlinais, who was one month shy of turning 23, was the only person involved in the 4 a.m. accident.
Kenneth St. Pé, one of two attorneys for the Langlinais family, saidTuesday the death was made doubly tragic when the recall notice for the Takata Corporation air bag system arrived in Langlinais’ mailbox two days after the crash, while she was lying in a hospital bed. She died two days after getting the notice.
St. Pé said the only serious injury that doctors who examined Langlinais could find was a severed carotid artery. That injury was consistent with other victims whose Takata air bags exploded and sent bits of metal flying, he said.
Related Documents
- Air bag lawsuit
“As a result, (Langlinais) sustained a penetrating injury to the right side of her neck, causing an immediate and profuse loss of blood,” the lawsuit states….
St. Pé said the number of deaths caused by the air bags might be more than the numbers cited in studies.
“It makes you wonder how many people have died at the scene of the accident from injuries like this that don’t get to the hospital. The doctors don’t look at them, and nobody does an autopsy.” St. Pé said. “They just figured they died in a car wreck.” See
http://theadvocate.com/news/12603876-123/lafayette-mother-files-lawsuit-against
Lou
