(Bloomberg) -- “Mummy -- Car!”
Welhelmo Rodriguez Caido Jr., 41, blurted out the warning as he was riding in the passenger seat of a Honda City driven by his wife, whom he endearingly called Mummy. A moment later, as they entered an intersection in the Malaysian town of Sibu on July 27, a collision with an oncoming car set off the air bag with such force it knocked Caido out.
On the driver’s side, the inflator inside the air bag, made by Takata Corp., malfunctioned and ruptured, firing a one-inch-wide shard of metal into the neck of his wife, Law Suk Leh.
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