Government announces compulsory airbag recall

The motor industry says it will be challenging to replace more than 50,000 potentially deadly airbags in cars over the next year-and-a-half. The government has issued a compulsory recall of the Alpha-type airbags, which have a high risk of misdeploying in an accident, firing shrapnel into drivers and passengers. The deadline is December 2019, after which the industry will have to tackle another 256,000 non-Alpha airbags that also need replacing. The chief executive of the Motor Industry Association, David Crawford, speaks to Guyon Espiner about the airbag recall.