The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a preliminary investigation into 252,756 Nissan Versa vehicles after complaints of inadvertent airbag deployments.
Complaints indicate that the driver or passenger curtain and seat-mounted airbags deployed when the front door was shut in a “possibly aggressive manner,” a summary on NHTSA’s website said.
“I closed the passenger side door and the airbag from the door exploded. Just that easy,” read one complaint.
No injuries have been reported. It was not clear which company supplied the airbag components to Nissan.
“Nissan is committed to the safety and security of our customers and their passengers,” a Nissan spokesman said in an email. “The company has received an inquiry from NHTSA concerning the MY2012 Nissan Versa Sedan. Nissan is actively investigating this issue and, as always, working cooperatively with the regulators to answer their questions.”
Nissan later said the 2011 model year Versa was also included in the investigation.
