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Car-safety crisis grows as Honda’s recalls surpass 19 million

The safety crisis plaguing the global automotive industry deepened as Japans three biggest carmakers said they would recall more than 11 million additional vehicles because of faulty air bags that can shoot shrapnel at motorists.

By Ma Jie, Bloomberg, Masatsugu Horie, Bloomberg, Yuki Hagiwara, Bloomberg | Updated on May 14, 2015
Six fatalities in Honda cars, including five in the U.S. and one in Malaysia, have been blamed on shrapnel from Takata air bags. (Photo: Shutterstock)

(Bloomberg) — The safety crisis plaguing the global automotive industry deepened as Japan’s three biggest carmakers said they would recall more than 11 million additional vehicles because of faulty air bags that can shoot shrapnel at motorists.

Honda Motor Co. is expanding its recalls by 4.89 million vehicles, bringing the total called back by the company to about 19.6 million, it said Thursday in Tokyo. Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will recall about 5 million more cars after finding air-bag inflators in Japan that could be susceptible to abnormal deployment in a crash, and Nissan Motor Co. said it will call back 1.56 million.

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