Takata Airbag Deaths Prompt Stellantis to Warn Owners to Park 270K Cars

DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis, the company formerly known as Fiat Chrysler, is warning owners of 276,000 older vehicles to stop driving them.
Takata air bags have apparently exploded in three more vehicles, leaving the drivers dead.
The company is telling people to stop driving Dodge Magnum wagons, Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle cars and Chrysler 300 sedans from the 2005 through 2010 model years.
Stellantis says it confirmed the driver's air bag inflators blew apart in three cases, killing three drivers.
All three deaths were in warm-weather U.S. states and happened in the past seven months in 2020 model year vehicles.
The three recent deaths bring the Takata air bags death toll to 32 worldwide, with 23 here in the United States.
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