One victim in California was left looking like he had been shot in the face, while police in Florida first believed another was stabbed. But two were actually injured during minor car crashes, and what eventually killed them wasn't a deadly hazard inside the vehicle but instead  a supposed safety feature. Investigators tied the horrific outcomes to airbags manufactured by the Japanese company Takata, 8 million of which were recalled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Scroll down for video Victim: A lawsuit alleges that Hien Thi Tran, 51, of Orlando was struck by plastic and metal shrapnel after a Takata airbag deployed in her 2001 Honda Accord during a minor accident
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Hien Thi Tran, 51, of Orlando died in October from cuts caused by metal and plastic shrapnel from an exploding airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord
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Devin Xu, 47, of Alhambra, California, died similarly in 2013 in his Honda Civic
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Investigators originally believed the scenes of the minor accidents were a stabbing or a shooting
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall of 8 million cars equipped with airbags manufactured by Takata
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During research, Takata founded inflaters cracked  but destroyed the results of the test, according to the Times
Deadly: A metal component of the airbag that critically injured @placeholder is shown, as Takata deals with allegations that their airbags have caused numerous fatalities while the company covered up faulty parts