Honda is recalling over 304,000 vehicles due to unsafe air bags. The air bags in the select models may inflate with too much pressure, causing metal and plastic pieces to fly and injure or even cause death to passengers. The recall affects the Accord, Civic, Odyssey, Pilot, CR-V and other models, manufactured in 2001 and 2002.The recall spans 273,000 vehicles in the U.S., some 27,000 in Canada, nearly 2,000 vehicles in Japan and another 2,000 in other countries. It affected 359 vehicles in Europe — 200 in Germany, 158 in Israel and one in Great Britain.
A Honda spokesman accounted for the airbag problem due to the use of an incorrect material in the chemical used to deploy air bags.
