The Dirty Laundry Comes Out - Honda Says It Failed To Report Over 1,700 Safety Related Injuries And Deaths

American Honda failed to tell U.S. safety regulators about more than 1,700 claims of deaths or injuries linked to possible safety defects in its vehicles since 2003, when the U.S. law requiring the reports took effect, the automaker said today.

The 1,729 incidents involve a wide variety of possible safety defects, including eight incidents linked to defective Takata airbag inflators.

The reporting errors were caused by a series of data entry and computer programming errors, plus an “overly narrow interpretation” of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act, Honda said.

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TheSteve - 11/25/2014 11:20:47 AM

+1 Boost

Wow. Simply wow.

Terry989 - 11/25/2014 11:25:03 AM

+2 Boost

Prediction - - - JDMUSMuscle will be strangely silent on another Japanese quality issue (not to mention fraud and a massive cover-up).

Agent009 - 11/26/2014 8:50:06 AM

+1 Boost

I honestly think if they dig deeper they will find out that more automakers are guilty of this. Along with the rampant price fixing that has been uncovered the industry as a whole will need to be reformed.

That opens the door to big government.

They did it to themselves.