Autonomous body for road safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found in its review that, Honda has made “inadvertent data entry or computer programming errors” that has spanned for about 11 years starting from 2003. The Japanese company Honda Motor Company has agreed that it had failed to report more than 1,700 claims of injury or death involving its cars to U.S. regulators which means that this could indeed be the biggest violation in history and can attract a fine of about $35 million.
Commenting more on the occasion, Rick Schostek, executive vice president of Honda North America said, “The audit identifies difficult facts where we did not meet our obligations. At Honda, we acknowledge this problem as our management’s responsibility.” The audit document prepared by Honda has not made the documents public yet and shall continue probing further.
Speaking more receiving Honda's response over the incident, Kevin Vincent, NHTSA’s chief counsel said, “will immediately begin reviewing the documents as part of our ongoing investigation into Honda’s failure to report air bag-related injuries and deaths in a timely manner. It strains credulity that a sophisticated company like Honda could make so many data-entry errors, coding errors and narrow interpretations of what’s a written claim.”
