Reports revealed that a parking lot accident at a bank in Alhambra last year, which was blamed on a defective airbag made by Japan's Takata Corporation, is the third of its kind in the U.S.

In the incident that occurred on Sept. 2013, the 2002 Acura sedan of 47-year-old Devin Xu collided with three cars and crashed into a building when it accelerated. Xu died from the collision despite wearing a seatbelt.

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According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Department, Xu died of an "apparent facial trauma due to foreign object inside air bag," noting that investigations revealed two tears were seen on the airbag itself.

"The strength of the impact was high enough as to produce a sudden, strong movement of the brain inside the skull which produced the bleeding," the findings indicated.

The report resulted to a thorough probe on Takata air bag inflators made during the year 2000 to 2007 led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

U.S. safety regulators are considering the possibility that the airbags were not properly sealed, leading to its inflation with excessive force that could potentially spray shrapnel at the vehicle's occupants.

Large automobile companies, including Honda motors, had recalled over 16 million vehicles all over the world after reports of faulty Takata airbags emerged in 2008.

In 2009 and 2010, Honda had retrieved more than 440,000 2001 and 2002 series Civic, Accord and Acura 3.2 TL automobiles in the U.S.

The Center for Auto Safety had recently accused the automobile company of underreporting casualties from accidents involving faulty airbags from the Japanese company and urged NHTSA deputy administrator David Friedman to refer the issue for criminal investigation.

In response, Honda had launched a third-party audit in September on possible "inaccuracies in its reporting" and had promised to notify the agency of the results of the process adding that in the past, the company may have not included verbal injury and death claims in their reports.

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