A report from the Sunday issue of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has linked a seventh death with the widely publicized defective airbags from Takata Corp. The airbag in this particular incident was installed in a 2005 Honda Civic. According to the WSJ report, NHTSA connected the rupture of a defective Takata driver-side air bag inside a 2005 Honda Civic in Lafayette, Louisiana, with the death of the driver, Kylan Rae Langlinais. WSJ’s report also stated that the vehicle had been sold a few months after Honda initiated a safety campaign related to the defective airbags in October 2014. WSJ reported that a notice regarding the safety campaign arrived in Langlinais’ mail two days after the crash on April 7, according to a lawsuit filed by the victim’s mother.

Honda issued a statement yesterday saying it will initiate a safety recall to replace for free Takata passenger front airbag inflators installed in certain 2001-2005 Honda Civic, 2003-2007 Honda Accord and 2001-2005 Acura 1.7EL vehicles sold in Canada following the defect determination by Takata and subsequent directive for a U.S. national recall from the NHTSA. This recall in Canada is being implemented in alignment with the U.S. national recall and will include 235,711 vehicles included in the driver front airbag inflator safety recall announced on May 27, 2015, which were not previously subject to a passenger front airbag recall.