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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 007104535 | Incident Date: Apr, 27 2007 |
| Consumer's City: BRISTOL | Consumer's State: VA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| Model Name: ACCORD | Model Year: 2001 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: Yes | Component's Description: Air bags:frontal:sensor/control module |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 2 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1HGCG32561A | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: May, 02 2007 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: Yes | Purchase Date: Aug, 31 2001 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: 2001 honda accord purchased new at dealership. a few months later (less than 1 year) srs light indicating problem with airbag came on and stayed on. auto was brought back to dealer for repair; temporarily light off, but came back shortly thereafter. in all total, car brought in for this problem probably 6 or more times, variably called sensor, light bulb and seat belt problem. daughter now has car, and has moved out of town. light is on, indicating problem, and she has a wreck, with no injuries but causing moderate damage to front of car. front end repaired, light temporarily went off, but came back on within a , month or two, another wreck with damage to front and back car, this time to point of having to be towed and undrivable. in neither case did airbags deploy, and daughter sustained mild neck and head injury from hitting head repeatedly on steering wheel. we believe that there is a serious flaw in airbag sensor and deployment system that lead us astray in assuming it was minor, and could have allowed major injury to daughter. we are very anxious about letting her drive car again. *jb |
