Ford is recalling nearly 400,000 Ranger pickups because of dangerous airbags

Ford is recalling about 391,000 Ranger pickup trucks because the driver's airbag inflators can explode with too much force and cause injuries.

The recall covers trucks from the 2004 through 2006 model years in the U.S. and Canada.

It comes just days after the government announced that a South Carolina man was killed when an inflator exploded in December. Joel Knight, 52, of Kershaw died when he was struck in the neck by metal shrapnel after his 2006 Ranger hit a cow in the road and struck a fence.

The government says automakers will recall another 5 million vehicles equipped with faulty inflators made by Takata Corporation of Japan. Some of the recalls are because of the crash that killed Knight, with the rest due to airbags failing in lab tests. Read more...