The UFC-Quy Choisir announced on Monday 5 May, after he had filed a complaint with the Pours Officer of Versailles against BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Volkswagen, for misleading commercial practices, aggravated deception and decorating threatened of others.
She blames them “Leave, opaque and insufficient management of a fatal risk”That of the airbag explosion that motorists would protect in the case of an accident. The inflatable cushions of the Japanese brand Takata that equip their vehicles, explode, when the gas they contain deteriorate, under the effect of heat and humidity.
In France, the Ministry of Transport has identified countless accidents and deaths that are linked to these explosions. The death of a motorist on a road in Guadeloupe on March 25 is like that “Coupled to trigger” With a defective airbag, the Pointe-à-Pitre persecution said on 12 May.
Although the danger of Takata -Aarbags has been known for more than ten years, the intended manufacturers have “While they are at the foot of the wall” To initiate memories, the UFC indicates In a press release. “No measure for Reminder under “Stop-ID” (with real estate real estate) was not set up on French territory before the minister’s order responsible for transport and theMinisterial Decree of 9 April 2025Although similar campaigns were started in 2014 in Canada for example ”She regrets.
Risk of death
Only Volkswagen decided on February 14, 2025, “But without a public information campaign”. THE “Simple recall campaigns, when they existed, were plot, not very readable and minimizing”The issued messages that call And “Easily defective Optimal operation “And no risk of death.
UFC-Quy Choisir also accuses these manufacturers to continue to rest their Takata-aircraft vehicles “Until 2017, or even until June 2020 (for certain seat models)”Although recall campaigns were already underway.
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