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Kiwanis Club of Aruba has elected its
new board of directors for 2023-2024
Friday
May 19, 2023
T: 582-7800
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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper

More than 30 million U.S. drivers don’t know if they’re

at risk from a rare but dangerous airbag blast

By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) — More than
33 million people in the
United States are driving
vehicles that contain a
potentially deadly threat:
Airbag inflators that in rare
cases can explode in a
collision and spew shrap-
nel.
Few of them know it.
And because of a dispute
between federal safety
regulators and an airbag
parts manufacturer, they
aren’t likely to find out any-
time soon.
The National Highway Traf-
fic Safety Administration is
demanding that the man-
ufacturer, ARC Automotive
of Knoxville, Tennessee, re-
call 67 million inflators that
could explode with such
force as to blow apart a
metal canister and expel
shrapnel. But ARC is refus-
ing to do so, setting up a
possible court fight with the
agency.
Automobile traffic jams Route 93 South, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Boston.
Associated Press
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