A new fatal accident connected to the defective airbag in Guadeloupe – Liberation

A month and a half after the facts, justice has just connected death on the road to a Guadeloupe motorist to an airbag of the Takata brand. In a statement published on Monday, the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecution said that the accident at the end of March was « Linked to trigger » With a defective airbag of the Japanese manufacturer, a new episode of a scandal which caused, until this drama, eleven overseas deaths and one in metropolitan France.

« The autopsy has confirmed that death is directly linked to the explosion of the airbag » In an accident on the locality of the mold, in Guadeloupe, on March 25, confirmed to AFP the prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre, Caroline Calbo. « We seized the investigating judge for manslaughter » and her « Is in the process of closing his instruction on the Takata airbags for divestment for the benefit of the Jirs investigating judge (specialized interregional jurisdiction) of Paris »where the surveys carried out on these failures due to the presence in the airbag of a gas that ages badly, in particular In hot and humid climates.

The victim in Guadeloupe, behind the wheel of a Toyota Hilux, led a vehicle « Not very recent » And « concernedBy the recall campaign-Toyota and Mercedes indicated in April to have to recall twenty models sold between 2001 and 2018-, I told AFP Charles-Henri Coppet, lawyer who ensures defending « Eleven families of deceased and twelve injured linked to explosions of this type » in the overseas.

He is « Too early » To say whether or not the victim had received a letter notifying such a reminder, said the Council, which became a civil party. An essential provision, which concerns almost 250,000 vehiclesbut which can prove to be insufficient, as the replacement period Pose difficulties to the drivers concerned, which have become immobilized. The accident between the victim’s vehicle and a truck had occurred in an area deemed dangerous, the firefighters said on the evening of the facts. Man, « Stuck in his vehicle », had been « Extract at the arrival of firefighters » While he was in cardio-respiratory arrest, according to the same source.