PRODUCT SAFETY and RECALLS in Southeast Asia and Malaysia

http://www.aseancap.org/ Momentum menggalakkan pengeluar kereta menawarkan kereta yang selamat kepada pengguna telah meningkat. Pelancaran ujian hentaman (crash test) yang bebas di Asia Tenggara memberikan peluang kepada pengguna memeriksa samada model kereta yang dijual memang selamat seperti yang diiklankan. Industri kereta telah bertindak!   Program ujian ini dipanggil New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP). Efforts to encourage car makers to offer better safety to consumers in emerging marketsare gathering momentum . The launch of a new independent crash testing group in South East Asia is giving car buyers the chance to check whether the models on sale really deliver the safety advertised. The industry is already rushing to respond.

Sisters  Raechel and Jacqueline Houck in the US were victims of a fatal car accident in Santa Cruz, US in 2004. The car they were driving was a Chrysler PT Cruiser – one of the models involved in a recall. The car rental company did not ground the models and rented out to the sisters and apparently began leaking steering fluid and suddenly caught fire before crashing into an oncoming semi-tractor trailer. As reported in a 2010 ABC News investigation, the car had been under a safety recall for the potential fire hazard, but was still rented to the sisters (ABC News, July 10, 2012). The parents of these sisters were awarded USD 15 million and a new law was drafted to ensure that car rental companies repair or ground unsafe cars if those cars are involved in any recalls. Fast forward 2014 (Dec) Law Suk Leh who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant from Sibu, died on the way to the hospital, becoming the first reported casualty outside the US in air-bag crisis. In ...