General Motors has announced a recall of nearly a million vehicles in the United States after a potentially dangerous defect in their airbags came to light.
The May 10 recall covers 994,763 vehicles manufactured by GM. This includes 244,304 Buick Enclave 2014-2017 model vehicles, 457,316 Chevrolet Traverse 2014-2017 models, and 293,143 GMC Acadia 2014-2017 vehicles.
“In these vehicles, the front-driver airbag inflator may contain a supplier manufacturing defect that may result in inflator rupture during deployment,” the recall states.
“An inflator rupture may cause metal fragments to pass through the airbag and into the vehicle interior, which may result in injury or death to vehicle occupants.”…