17-Year-Old Driver Dies After Getting Hit By Metal Object From Airbag Inflator

  • 8 years ago
On March 31, 17-year-old Huma Hanif of Richmond, Texas died shortly after minor accident. The cause has been declared as a defective airbag mechanism.

On March 31, 17-year-old Huma Hanif of Richmond, Texas was involved in a vehicle accident authorities say she should have been able to walk away from, reports KTRK.
Instead, she died shortly after the small crash because her Honda Civic was equipped with a defective airbag mechanism. 
When the feature deployed, a small metal fragment was expelled and struck an artery in Hanif’s neck. 
According to a witness, she got out of the car, but

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