Takata in Criminal Probe on Deadly Air Bag Flaws

By Reuters 11/13/14

[…] Separately, Takata disputed a recent New York Times report that it had failed to tell federal regulators that it had found signs of air bag defects in secret tests in 2004 in Michigan.
[…] All five deaths have been in Honda cars. The Japanese carmaker, Takata’s biggest customer, widened its recall for the defective air bags by another 170,000 vehicles globally, taking the total to nearly 10 million. […]