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Federal government issues massive recall for vehicle airbags

Nationals safety regulators have issued an alert for millions of drivers. Nearly eight million vehicles are being recalled because a defective airbag can spray ...
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Nationals safety regulators have issued an alert for millions of drivers.

Nearly eight million vehicles are being recalled because a defective airbag can spray a vehicle’s passengers with metal fragments.

The warning covers cars made by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan, General Motors and Ford.

Passenger or driver air bags or both could have the faulty inflators.  Safety advocates say the problem could affect more than 20 million vehicles in the U.S.

Toyota said it’s working with Takata to pinpoint the cause of the rupture and to gauge the influence of high absolute humidity, which is a measurement of water vapor in the air.

NHTSA urges people to check if their car has been recalled by going to  http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shoppers/Air+Bags/Air+Bag+-+VIN+number and typing in their vehicle identification number.

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