Takata Engineer Refused to Testify in Air Bag Failure Lawsuit
- Engineer cited constitutional right against self-incrimination
- Accident victim claims Takata misled Honda about saftey tests
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A Takata Corp. engineer involved in testing the company’s air bags invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination in declining to testify in a lawsuit brought by a woman left paralyzed in a 2014 accident.
Lawyers for accident victims claim Takata withheld or doctored bad test results before and after the company’s air bag inflators began exploding, spewing shrapnel into drivers and passengers in accidents in the U.S. and elsewhere.