Reported death in India road crash linked to Takata airbag

Tokyo

THE safety crisis involving malfunctioning vehicular airbag inflators made by Japan's Takata Corp has spread to India after a first reported death involving the components.

Honda Motor Co said that a 2007 Honda Civic was travelling at a high speed in India last April when it rolled over and crashed, resulting in the driver's death. Honda learned of the accident three months later and investigations showed the airbag made by Takata had deployed and ruptured, though the cause of death hasn't been determined, according to Honda spokesman Ben Nakamura.