The association requests a series of compensation for various prejudices, while the government has ordered car manufacturers to immobilize 800,000 additional vehicles in June.
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UFC-Que Choisir A announcement Tuesday, July 22, having launched a group action targeting the automaker Stellantis to claim the payment of compensation from the owners of vehicles equipped with Takata airbags subject to forced immobilization. The consumer association has decided to seize the court “So that the damages caused to motorists victims of reminders under ‘Stop Drive’, operated since 2023 in a completely anarchic and unreasonable way, are repaired”she said.
At the end of June, the French government ordered car manufacturers, all brands combined to immobilize 800,000 additional vehicles equipped with Takata airbags, potentially defective, bringing to 1.7 million the number of vehicles targeted by a prohibition for this reason, until the device is replaced. This decision was made after the fatal accident of a motorist, which occurred in Reims due to the explosion of his airbag during a shock with another vehicle.
The association requests a series of compensation for various damages, in particular a daily allowance for the duration of the immobilization of the vehicle or for moral damage suffered by consumers “transported to cars equipped with deadly equipment”. It is the first group action brought in France about these defective airbags, responsible for at least 60 people dead in 11 countries in the past 15 years, including 18 in France. In the United States, the most affected country with 28 dead, Ford, Toyota, Honda, BMW, Nissan and Mazda paid a total of $ 1.5 billion in victims.
