Hawaii sues Ford, Nissan and Toyota for using dangerous airbags

Hawaii has filed a lawsuit against three major automobile manufacturers, saying they knowingly sold cars with dangerous air bags.

Meanwhile many of the state’s residents are still driving cars with the volatile air bags as they wait for replacement parts to arrive.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ Office of Consumer Protection said Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. for unlawful practices in connection with marketing and sales of vehicles in Hawaii with dangerous air bags made by Tokyo-based Takata Corp.

“Nissan, Toyota and Ford knew, or should have known, for more than a decade … the air bags installed in their cars could explode, posing grave and sometimes fatal dangers to the cars’ occupants,” said Stephen Levins, executive director of the Office of Consumer Protection, at a press conference Wednesday.

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