NHTSA Questions Automakers In Light Of Potentially Lethal Airbags | Carscoops carscoops
, NHTSA has sent letters to several vehicle manufacturers enquiring about the potentially defective inflators, which could be fitted to tens of millions of cars.
According to NHTSA, the probe relates to 51 million ARC inflators used for both passenger and driver-side airbags and installed between model years 2002 and 2017. While NHTSA doesn’t specify how many cars may be affected, court documents reveal that on U.S. roads, these components have fired six times, leaving two dead and four injured as a result of airbag shrapnel that exploded in a crash.
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