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Faulty air bag parts prompt Honda to re-recall 1 million cars

Honda will recall more than a million vehicles in the U.S. to replace a batch of faulty air bag parts as part of the largest auto safety recall in history.

A driver in Maryland was injured in a January crash when a 2004 Honda Odyssey driver-side air bag inflator, made by the now-defunct Takata Corp., ruptured, Honda said in a statement.

The inflator that failed was a replacement installed in 2015 under the terms of a prior recall. The vehicle was included in one of Honda's earliest campaigns to replace Takata air bag inflators that contained a propellant that can become unstable and explode in a crash, a defect linked to more than a dozen deaths and at least 220 injuries worldwide.