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Facts Matter

Illegal Made-in-China Airbags Have Killed 8 Americans: How to Check Your Car

Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In one of the worst “Made in China” product disasters in recent memory, 10 people in the United States have recently either died or been seriously wounded when the airbag in their car went off and blasted their face, neck, and chest with metal shrapnel.

Instead of creating a pillow to cushion the impact, these made-in-China airbags acted like grenades—so far killing eight drivers in what would’ve otherwise been survivable crashes—and seriously injuring two others.


Let’s go through what we know about these airbags, how they’re getting into cars, why they’re killing people, as well as how you can check your own car to see whether you’re safe.

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0:00.0

In one of the worst made-in-China product disasters in recent memory, 10 people right here in the

0:05.9

U.S. have recently either died or been seriously wounded when the airbag in their car went off

0:12.0

and blasted their face, neck, and chest with metal shrapnel. Basically, instead of creating a nice

0:17.8

soft pillow to cushion the impact, these Made in China airbags acted

0:22.2

more like grenades, so far killing eight drivers in what would have otherwise been survivable

0:27.6

crashes, and then also seriously wounding two others. And so in today's episode, let's go through

0:33.1

what we know about these airbags, how they're actually getting into American cars, why specifically

0:39.0

they're killing people, as well as how you can check to see if your car is actually safe.

0:43.7

And as always, I would greatly appreciate if you smash those like and subscribe buttons

0:47.9

so that this video can be picked up by the YouTube algorithm and share to ever more people

0:51.9

who, in my opinion, really should know about this valuable

0:54.5

information. Now, to start with, let me read to you from a press release that was released

1:00.2

just earlier last week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Here's what

1:05.0

they said regarding these airbags. Quote, we're issuing an urgent warning to use car buyers and

1:09.5

owners after two more drivers have been killed in crashes in December by substandard and dangerous Chinese replacement airbag inflators that are likely illegally imported.

1:19.7

All of these vehicles have had their original equipment airbags replaced with substandard airbags after a previous crash.

1:26.5

Meaning that all of these cars in question have been in a previous accident where the original

1:31.1

airbags went off.

1:32.8

And when that happens and you want to go ahead and rebuild the car, you need to go and

1:36.9

put in a new airbag system.

1:39.0

However, it appears that through either ignorance or by trying to cut corners and save money,

1:44.9

these cars were re-outfitted with illegal made-in-China airbag inflators from one particular company.

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