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] 
 
 [WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO OF HANIF'S DEPLOYED AIRBAG] 
 
 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) 
 
 
 
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 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. ||||| DIX HILLS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Millions of vehicles are affected by one of the largest and most complex car safety recalls in history. 
 
 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. ||||| TOKYO/DETROIT Four Japanese automakers, including Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co, are recalling 3.4 million vehicles sold around the world because airbags supplied by Takata Corp are at risk of catching fire or injuring passengers. 
 
 The move announced on Thursday is the largest recall ever for airbags made by Takata, the world's second-largest supplier of airbags and seatbelts. Shares of Takata, which first learned of the issue in October 2011, tumbled almost 10 percent in Tokyo trading. 
 
 The recall, also including vehicles from Honda Motor Co Ltd and Mazda Motor Corp, is the largest since Toyota pulled back more than 7 million vehicles in October to repair faulty power window switches. The scale of the recent safety actions underscores the risk of huge global supply chain problems as automakers increasingly rely on a handful of suppliers for common or similar parts to cut costs, analysts have said. 
 
 Toyota, Honda and Nissan said there were no reports of injuries or deaths because of the defective airbags, which affect more than 1.3 million vehicles in the United States. 
 
 Airbags are flexible fabric envelopes that inflate rapidly to cushion occupants in an accident. They were rolled out broadly in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, and are now required in most developed countries, with many vehicles offering multiple airbags. 
 
 However, U.S. requirements were changed in the late 1990s to lower the explosive force of airbag deployment after injuries caused by early generations of the technology. 
 
 In the current Takata recall, the airbag for the front passenger seat may not inflate correctly because of a manufacturing defect in the propellant used in the airbag inflator, the companies said. As a result, there is a risk of fires starting or of passengers being injured by metal fragments shooting up toward the windshield or down into the passenger foot well. 
 
 The recall covers some of the top-selling Japanese cars, including Toyota's Camry and Corolla, and rivals like the Nissan Maxima and Honda Civic. All of the vehicles in question were manufactured in or after 2000. None of the affected Camrys were sold in the United States. 
 
 UNWELCOME ATTENTION 
 
 The recall is not welcome news for Toyota, which took a hit to its reputation after it recalled nearly 19 million vehicles globally from late 2009 to early 2011 due to unintended acceleration claims. 
 
 "The huge recall is expected to generate a good deal of unwelcome attention, particularly for Toyota, as it strives to rebuild its reputation for quality in North America," IHS Automotive analyst Paul Newton said in a report. 
 
 Takata said it learned of the problem from an automaker it did not identify in October 2011 after an airbag deployment in Japan. It learned of a Honda accident in Puerto Rico the following month, according to documents filed with U.S. safety regulators. 
 
 From February 2012 through June last year, Takata could not reproduce the problem in testing, but that autumn the supplier was alerted to three additional incidents - two in Puerto Rico and one in Maryland - according to documents filed with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 
 
 By October 2012, Takata concluded it was possible that the propellant in certain wafers made at its plant in Moses Lake, Washington, might be inadequately compressed, which could lead to the rupture, according to NHTSA documents. 
 
 By March this year, it also discovered that some wafers used in inflators made at a plant in Monclova, Mexico, for a year ending in late October 2002 may have been exposed to excess moisture, which could lead to a rupture, according to the NHTSA documents. 
 
 Takata is aware of only six cases where an inflator ruptured in vehicles in the field - four in the United States and two in Japan - as well as six cases in salvage yards in Japan, according to NHTSA documents. 
 
 'STRANGE' DEPLOYMENT 
 
 In July and August 2012 in Japan, at scrap yards where airbags were being recycled, officials noted that airbags in some Honda vehicles deployed "strangely," adding to the probe, a U.S. spokesman for Honda said. 
 
 Industry officials said the elapsed time between the first report of a problem and the announcement of the recall was not unusual because companies typically search for patterns and possible causes of problems before launching a recall. 
 
 Toyota said in NHTSA documents that it also received a report in October 2011 about an accident in Japan related to the issue. The automaker then asked Takata to investigate, but through August 2011 no abnormalities were found with 66 recovered inflators. 
 
 In September 2012, Toyota said it received reports of three vehicles in the U.S. market with fractured inflators, and the automaker asked Takata to study 144 parts that were recovered. 
 
 In February 2013, Takata said the inflators were cracked, possibly because of lower material density increasing pressure on the part, so Toyota asked the supplier to determine if a trend was developing, according to NHTSA documents. On April 5, Toyota decided to conduct its recall, three days after Takata said certain inflators could be faulty. 
 
 Tokyo-based Takata said it supplies airbags and seatbelts to major automakers including Daimler AG and Ford Motor Co as well as the Japanese brands. 
 
 Some non-Japanese automakers were also supplied with the faulty airbags, Takata spokesman Toyohiro Hishikawa said. He declined to name those automakers. 
 
 General Motors Co said Takata is a supplier, but that the problem affected only about 55,000 Pontiac Vibe cars from model year 2003 built for the U.S. and Canadian markets. The cars were assembled at the Fremont, California, plant GM previously ran in a joint venture with Toyota and were included in Toyota's total recall number, a GM spokesman said. GM dealers will service its cars. 
 
 BMW has an undetermined number of vehicles affected by the recall, a U.S. spokesman for Takata said. 
 
 Officials with Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault SA and Volkswagen AG said they were not affected because they did not use the airbags covered by the recall. India's Tata Motors Ltd and its Jaguar Land Rover unit said they are not affected. 
 
 A Takata spokesman in the United States said no other customers were affected. Italy's Fiat SpA and India's Maruti Suzuki said Takata is not a supplier. 
 
 PREVIOUS RECALL 
 
 Between 2008 and 2011, Honda was forced to recall about 2.8 million vehicles after finding a defect with driver-side airbags supplied by Takata. 
 
 "When the last recall took place, we inspected everything such as the site of manufacturing, but we were not able to identify this problem," said Hideyuki Matsumoto, another spokesman for Takata. 
 
 The present recall, announced during Japanese trading hours, hit Takata's shares harder than stock prices of automakers, who typically carry reserves for recalls and warranty costs. 
 
 It is the largest recall for Takata since 1995 when the company was involved in a recall of more than 8 million vehicles because of defective seatbelts. 
 
 Shares in Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda, which continue to be supported by a weakening yen, were up between 3.1 and 5.8 percent, outpacing a 2 percent rise in the benchmark Nikkei. ($1 = 99.5050 Japanese yen) 
 
 (Reporting by Yoko Kubota and Mari Saito; Additional reporting by staff in Washington, Europe, Mexico, India and China; editing by Daniel Magnowski and Matthew Lewis)
– 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.)