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Sixth faulty air-bag fatality emerges

The death raises to five the number of U.S. fatalities tied to air bag inflators suspected of spewing shrapnel when deployed in a crash.

By Jeff Plungis, Bloomberg, Jeff Green, Bloomberg | Updated on November 21, 2014
Hiroshi Shimizu, senior vice president of global quality assurance at Takata, apologizes for the failure of the defective devices as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 20 before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing about the airbags linked to multiple deaths and injuries in cars driven in the US. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(Bloomberg) — An executive for Takata Corp., the company being investigated for making air bags linked to the deaths of motorists, apologized yesterday at a U.S. Senate hearing as two lawmakers said a sixth fatality may be related.

“We are deeply sorry and anguished about each of the reported instances in which a Takata air bag has not performed as designed and a driver or passenger has suffered personal injuries or death,” Hiroshi Shimizu, senior vice president in charge of global quality assurance, testified to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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