Your car’s airbag might be a recall from over 10 years ago

An airbag recall from 14 years ago could haunt you if you didn’t get it swapped out.

CarFax’s Patrick Olsen told KIRO Newsradio over six million cars in the United States still have the Takata Airbag installed.

“There are 133,000 in Washington State and more than 76,000 in the Seattle Tacoma area,” he said.

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Olsen told us the Takata airbag killed 27 people in the U.S. and almost 400 people have been injured.

“That is an incredible number,” he said.  “And frankly, we were alarmed to see it (the recall) was still quite so high. We figured

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