(Bloomberg) -- U.S. senators called for the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a report that auto-parts maker Takata Corp. may have destroyed evidence years before recalling cars for exploding air bags.
Takata secretly tested air bags in 2004 for the possibility that shrapnel could be propelled toward front-seat passengers, then concealed the evidence, the New York Times reported today, citing interviews with two former employees it didn’t identify.
“If the reports are true, the company must be held accountable for the horrific deaths and injuries that its wrongdoing caused,” Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Edward Markey of Massachusetts said today in a statement. “These allegations are credible and shocking -- plainly warranting a prompt and aggressive criminal probe.”
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