This 17-Year-Old Girl Was Killed After The Airbag In Her Civic Exploded
The teen was killed by a metal fragment that shot from the airbag.
A 17-year-old high school student in Richmond, Texas, died last week when the airbag in her car exploded, law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed News. The case is the 10th fatality tied to the defective Takata airbag inflators.
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Huma Hanif, a senior at George Ranch High School, was driving her 2002 Honda Civic around 4:30 p.m. local time on March 31 when she collided with another car, the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
When the airbag deployed, it shot out a metal fragment that struck Hanif in the neck.
Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office
Rudy Torres, the owner of a barber shop near where the accident occurred, told ABC 13 that Hanif got out of her car and collapsed.
"She had a deep laceration on the side of her throat," he said. "It looked like debris from the airbag."