Sued Rp. 56 Billion By Consumers, Honda Answering

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Related lawsuit does not inflate the air bag (air bag) Honda City car number plate 'B 61 GIT' Desryanto Aruan during a collision on October 29, 2012, the compensation value of Rp 56,000,000,000. Honda Prospect Motor (HPM) filed an answer and ask for rejection.

In the minutes before the panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court, (19/5). HPM did request that the claim made on behalf of the plaintiff Maringan Aruan, SE with the argument of violation of Law No. 8 of 1999 on consumer protection, in order to be rejected or not accepted for several reasons. Among others;

1. That statement SRS Airbag in the Honda City is experiencing the defect is not true.
"HPM has to check the SRS airbag unit, which is directly done by Honda Motor Japan, and concluded that the SRS airbag unit is functioning properly," said Muhammad Zuhdi, Technical Training Manager HPM, Jakarta (19/5).

2. Accident Plaintiff Suffered Unsatisfactory conditions or prerequisites that Triggering expansion of the airbag.

Keep in mind, further Zuhdi, automobile airbag technology designed so that it expands only on certain conditions. Because otherwise, the airbag can actually endanger the driver or passengers if it is too easy to inflate.

Several conditions triggered by the airbag deployment;

a. When a collision with a vehicle speed of at least 20-30 km / h against solid objects that do not move and do not disintegrate when the collision (eg concrete wall).
b. Frontal collision occurs or from the front left or right in the corner no more than 30 ° (thirty degrees).

Instead, SRS airbag will not inflate in the following conditions:

a. The car hit a fence, poles, pillars or other objects that will experience a shift when hit by a car (not the object is not moving, such as concrete walls).
b. Car crashed into an electric pole, tree or pillar right in the middle of the front of the car.
c. Collision from the front left or right in an angle of more than 30 ° (thirty degrees).
d. Collision from the side, a collision from behind, and the car overturned.

Of these conditions, resulting in energy received by the sensor is not strong enough to make the SRS airbag inflates.

Based on available facts, HPM concluded that the Honda City Plaintiff did not qualify that trigger airbag deployment during a collision.

Wherein, the object of which was hit by a car Child Plaintiff not solid objects are not shifted and is not destroyed in the event of a collision. And when the second collision, the car crashed into the pillar work Minang Padang Restaurant, right in the middle of the front of the car.

However, unfortunately, Honda did not provide detailed technical data of the car City, for example, the last vehicle speed data during a collision and some other technical data information.

In fact, the data can be retrieved from the main controller or Electronic Control Unit (ECU) which is mounted in the car. And Zuhdi said that "Currently we only take checks SRS airbag unit including its module alone, while the main ECU the car was not there when Honda wanted to do the checking."

So, where the loss ECU arguably its blackbox vehicle?

3. Losses Claimed Plaintiff Not Due Airbags Not expands.


That, based on the facts, known at the time of the accident Child Plaintiff suffered injuries due to a puncture in the chest area iron guardrail roads hit by a car.
In this case, SRS airbag is designed to reduce injury in a collision the driver with the steering wheel, and from the beginning was not intended to protect the driver from the puncture sharp objects from outside, as experienced by the Child Plaintiff.

This event corresponding Certificate of Receipt Traffic Accident Report No. Reg Report: 644 / SK / XI / 2012 / Dit Then, the accident occurred on October 29, 2012 at about 1:50 pm.

4. Replace Losses Charged By Plaintiffs No, because No Causal Relationship Between Plaintiff disadvantage with SRS airbag is not Inflate.

Namely, Honda is required to pay compensation for a total of approximately Rp. 56 billion, including USD 552.250 to reimburse the cost of living Son of the Plaintiff for 8 years studying abroad, as well as immaterial costs Rp. 50 billion.

By doing so, Honda claimed that the losses suffered by the Plaintiff is not caused by SRS airbag is not inflated, there is no obligation of Honda to meet the demands of the Plaintiff.

And unfounded because it had nothing to do with the Defendant, and not in accordance with the provisions of Article 19 paragraph (2) Consumer Protection Law.