FORT BEND COUTY, Texas - A teenager from Fort Bend County has died from injuries due to an exploding Takata air bag. 
 
 The victim has been identified as Huma Hanif, 17. Honda said Hanif was killed in Fort Bend County on March 31 when a driver's air bag inflator ruptured in the crash of a 2002 Honda Civic. 
 
 Fort Bend County sheriff's deputies said she rear-ended another car on FM 762 at Gonyo Road. 
 
 Deputies said in a news conference Thursday that a metal piece from the airbag cut and killed her. They said she should have survived the crash, if not for the airbag. 
 
 "There is no doubt that the Takata air bag inside her 2002 Honda Civic failed and fired a sharp piece of jagged metal into her throat at point-blank range, from less than two feet away," Sheriff Troy Nehls said. "Our investigation revealed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the right neck area, which severed her jugular vein and carotid artery." 
 
 Nehls went on to say that the piece of metal found in Hanif's neck came from the airbag in her car. 
 
 The Sheriff's Department said she died within a matter of seconds. 
 
 Her brother appealed to the public at Thursday's press conference. 
 
 "I would like for anyone watching this to pray for my sister and my family," he said. "I would just like to urge everyone regardless of whether or not you receive a recall notice, if you have a car that has a defective air bag, get it fixed before you lose a loved one on it." 
 
 Her said Hanif had dreams of going to college and becoming a nurse. She was a senior at George Ranch High School. 
 
 Principal Frederick J. Black Jr. sent a letter home to parents April 1 that read in part: 
 
 "The Lamar CISD crisis team, made up of school counselors from across the District, was on site today to provide support to staff and students. 
 
 "If your student is having trouble dealing with this tragic event, please encourage them to speak with one of our counselors." 
 
 Those who rushed to try and save the teen's life said at first they couldn't understand how a relatively minor crash could have ended her life. 
 
 Oscar Ariaca was the first to try and save Hanif. Araica said the damage to Hanif's car wasn't that bad, but she had a large gash in her neck. 
 
 "I tried to hold where the blood was coming out, but I feel like there was not a whole lot I could do," Ariaca said. 
 
 He said he has trouble getting the images out of his mind. 
 
 "I haven't been sleeping really good," Ariaca said. "It's been hard because I have kids, too." 
 
 Hanif is the 10th known death in the U.S. from a Takata inflator and the 11th worldwide. More than 100 people have been hurt as a result of the malfunction. The air bags are the subject of the largest automotive recall in history. Check if your car made the recall list online at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. 
 
 Honda issued its own statement reading Hanif's car was part of this and other recalls adding: 
 
 "Multiple mailed recall notices were sent over the course of several years to registered owners of this vehicle, including the current registered owner. Our records indicate that the recall repair was never completed." 
 
 [WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO OF HANIF'S DEPLOYED AIRBAG] 
 
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 Takata inflators can explode with too much force and spew shrapnel at drivers and passengers. So far 14 automakers have recalled 24 million U.S. vehicles in what is now the largest auto recall in the country's history. About 7.1 million inflators have been replaced. 
 
 American Honda released a statement that read, in part: "American Honda continues to urge owners of Honda and Acura vehicles affected by the Takata airbag recalls to get their vehicles repaired at authorized dealers as soon as possible. Vehicle owners can check their vehicles' recall status online at for Honda and Acura." 
 
 Hanif is the second person in the Houston area to be killed by faulty Takata airbags. 
 
 In January 2015, 35-year-old Carlos Solis died in low-speed crash near Spring High School. He was driving a 2002 Honda Accord. 
 
 His family is suing Honda, Takata and the dealership that sold the car. 
 
 Safercar.Gov issued a list of the Takata airbag recalls. The list includes: 
 
 BMW 
 
 FCA (Chrysler) 
 
 Daimler Trucks North America 
 
 Daimler Vans USA LLC 
 
 Ford 
 
 General Motors (GM) 
 
 Honda 
 
 Mazda 
 
 Mercedes-Benz 
 
 Mitsubishi 
 
 Nissan 
 
 Ram 
 
 Subaru 
 
 Toyota 
 
 Volkswagen (VW) 
 
 
 
 Click here for more information. 
 
 Copyright 2016 by KPRC Click2Houston. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ||||| Another person has been killed in the U.S. by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, but this death wasn’t the result of a crash. Honda says a man died in June 2016 when an inflator ruptured while he was working inside a 2001 Honda Accord using a hammer. (Photo: Getty Images) 
 
 Washington — Another person has been killed by an exploding Takata air bag, but this time it wasn’t the result of crash. Instead, it was someone trying to make repairs with a hammer. 
 
 Ramon V. Kuffo, 81, of Hialeah, Florida, was working inside a 2001 Honda Accord using a hammer when the air bag inflator ruptured, on June 18, 2016. A medical examiner ruled his death accidental due to head trauma, according to a Hialeah police report. 
 
 It’s the 12th U.S. death attributed to the faulty inflators and 17th worldwide, including five in Malaysia. Takata inflators can explode with too much force when exposed to prolonged airborne moisture and hot-and-cold temperature cycles. If that happens, the inflators can blow apart a metal canister and shoot out shrapnel which can kill or injure people. More than 180 people have been hurt in the U.S. alone. 
 
 The problem touched off the largest automotive recall in U.S. history involving up to 69 million inflators and 42 million vehicles. Honda was Takata’s biggest customer before the problems surfaced. Last month Takata filed for bankruptcy protection in both Japan and the U.S. and most of its assets were bought by rival Key Safety Systems. 
 
 According to police, Kuffo was in the back yard of his home near Miami, working on a silver 2001 Honda Accord, when a neighbor heard a loud bang. The neighbor went outside and found Kuffo sitting in the passenger seat of the car unconscious and bleeding from his face. Kuffo was taken to a trauma center, where he died the next day. Both air bags had inflated. 
 
 According to police, Kuffo was in the back yard of his home near Miami, working on a silver 2001 Honda Accord, when a neighbor heard a loud bang. The neighbor went outside and found Kuffo sitting in the passenger seat of the car unconscious and bleeding from his face. Kuffo was taken to a trauma center, where he died the next day. Both air bags had inflated. 
 
 Honda released some details of the death on Monday and said it only recently found out about it. The company has not been able to inspect the car and is relying on police photos to make its determination, Honda spokesman Chris Martin said. 
 
 The victim, who police said was not the car’s owner, was working on the interior of the car with a hammer and had taken apart the car’s center console, but it wasn’t clear what he was trying to fix. It’s also not clear why the air bag deployed, but police photos show the metal driver’s side inflator ruptured and shot out fragments, Honda said. The car’s ignition switch was on, so the air bag would have been ready in case of a crash, according to Honda. Martin noted that there is a deceleration sensor that activates the air bags mounted on the wall between the engine and passenger compartment. 
 
 “The rupture most likely contributed to his death,” Martin said. 
 
 The 2001 Accord has one of the most dangerous types of Takata driver’s side air bag inflators. Laboratory tests show they have as high as a 50 percent chance of blowing apart in a crash. 
 
 Honda urged owners who have received recall notices to get repairs made as soon as possible, especially those with the most dangerous type of inflator. Those models are the 2001 and 2002 Accord and Civic, the 2002 CR-V and Odyssey, the 2002 and 2003 Acura 3.2 TL, the 2003 Acura 3.2 CL and the 2003 Pilot. Honda says it has sufficient supplies of replacement inflators available to fix all of its recalled vehicles. 
 
 Multiple owners of the car were mailed 12 recall notices over seven years. “Our records indicate that the recall repair was never completed on this vehicle,” Honda said in a statement. 
 
 Honda said Monday that it has sufficient replacement inflators to fix all of its cars subject to the recall. 
 
 Takata has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and Japan after the largest recall in U.S. history. About 46 million Takata air bags in 29 million cars have already been called back, with another 20 million to 25 million additional air bags set to be recalled with the next couple of years. 
 
 Takata announced in late June that it reached a deal worth 175 billion Japanese yen, or $1.59 billion, to sell its remaining global assets and operations to a Chinese-owned Key Safety Systems that is headquartered in Sterling Heights. 
 
 On Monday, the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan Southern Michigan announced the appointment of Harvard University Professor Eric D. Green to administer the $1 billion fund that Takata was required to set up to compensate drivers who purchased autos that were built with the faulty parts. 
 
 The previous administrator of the fund, or special master, was former FBI Director Robert Mueller III, who has since been tapped to oversee the investigation of alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign by Russia on behalf of President Donald Trump. 
 
 klaing@detroitnews.com 
 
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 Twitter: @Keith_Laing 
 
 The Associated Press contributed. 
 
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 A total of 29 million cars need replacement parts following an airbag recall. But only 7.5 million have been repaired. And as CBS2’s Sonia Rincon reported, a recent tragedy is sounding the alarm for local drivers. 
 
 The death of Huma Hanif, 17, in Texas this week was the tenth in the U.S. blamed on defective Takata airbags. 
 
 Lisa Berley of Dix Hills, Long Island heard about it, right after she got a letter from BMW saying her car has a Takata airbag and she should get it replaced. 
 
 The problem is the letter said, “At the present time, we do not have parts available.” Thus, Berley needs to wait until they do. 
 
 She consulted her local dealer. 
 
 “I called up to see if they had the airbags and when that would happen. They told me — the dealership told me — the summer,” Berley said. 
 
 Until then, she doesn’t want anyone — especially her 18-year old son — driving the car. 
 
 “I don’t even want him as a passenger in the car, and I think we’ll probably avoid using it as much as possible,” Berley said. 
 
 A local dealership will likely be replacing that airbag once it’s available. Because Berley’s car is leased, she is hoping they will let her switch it for one with a different airbag. 
 
 Berley is still waiting to hear back from the dealership, which also did not immediately respond to CBS2 for comment. 
 
 AAA Northeast spokesman Robert Sinclair said the Takata airbag replacement backlog is a big problem. 
 
 “We’re talking about 29 million vehicles that are being recalled of lots of different brands from different countries of origin,” Sinclair said. 
 
 So what are your options if you’re waiting? Sinclair said it doesn’t hurt to ask your dealer for a loaner, but that may not work. 
 
 “It’s not something that a dealership would be required to do,” he said. 
 
 Sinclair added that standard car insurance wouldn’t cover a rental. 
 
 You can also consult a mechanic about disabling your airbag, so it won’t deploy in a collision. 
 
 “That might be something you want to consider as long as you have your seatbelt on,” Sinclair said. 
 
 But what if you’re not sure if you even have a Takata airbag in your car? The family of Huma Hanif said she had no idea. 
 
 There is an app that will send you notifications if your car is affected by a recall. It’s made by CarFax. 
 
 Sinclair said while that’s one way for drivers to find out, “the action should be coming from the manufacturer who should be tracking them down and letting them know.” 
 
 The airbags’ inflator can break apart into sharp pieces and spray out when it deploys. In addition to 10 deaths, more than 100 people have been hurt by the shrapnel. 
 
 The National Traffic Safety Administration issued a new appeal this week to manufacturers to notify drivers and replace the defective airbags.
– Huma Hanif should have survived a March 31 fender bender in Fort Bend County, Texas, authorities say. Instead, the 17-year-old was killed when the driver's-side airbag in her 2002 Honda Civic exploded and, police say, "fired a sharp piece of jagged metal into her throat at point-blank range," KPRC reports. Huma died within seconds after her jugular vein and carotid artery were severed, Sheriff Troy Nehls says, adding "there is no doubt" that the Takata airbag in her vehicle failed. A bystander who came to Huma's aid says the damage to the car wasn't that bad, but there was a gash in her neck, which he tried to cover. "I feel like there was not a whole lot I could do," he says. Huma, who aspired to become a nurse, is the 10th person in the US to die after a Takata airbag's inflator broke apart and sprayed shrapnel into a vehicle's cabin, CBS New York reports. More than 100 people have been injured. A recall last year included some 29 million cars by many manufacturers, but only a quarter of those have been repaired. And that doesn't always seem to be the fault of vehicle owners. One Long Island woman tells CBS that she received a recall notice that read in part, "At the present time, we do not have parts available." Honda says Huma's Civic was part of the recall and that the company sent notices to multiple people who had owned the car, "including the current registered owner." The repair, however, was never completed. Huma's family tells CBS she didn't know about the recall. During a press conference, her brother urged vehicle owners to find out whether they may have a defective airbag and, if they do, to "get it fixed before you lose a loved one." (This young woman was injured in a bizarre car accident.)