PARIS (Reuters) -Stellantis has asked for 82,000 Citroen C3 and DS3 vehicles in France with faulty Takata airbags to be removed from roads, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, one week after a woman in Reims died from injuries sustained by one of the airbags in a 2014 Citroen C3. All C3 and DS3 vehicles […]
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Stellantis asks for thousands of Citroen cars with faulty airbags to be removed from roads
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PARIS (Reuters) -Stellantis has asked for 82,000 Citroen C3 and DS3 vehicles in France with faulty Takata airbags to be removed from roads, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, one week after a woman in Reims died from injuries sustained by one of the airbags in a 2014 Citroen C3.
All C3 and DS3 vehicles produced between 2014 and 2019 are now subject to the “stop drive” recall, the spokesperson said. To date, the company has repaired 481,000 cars in France with the airbags out of 690,000.
The French transport ministry had requested for all Citroen C3 and DS3 vehicles subject to a Takata airbag recall to be removed from the roads after the June 11 accident.
(Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; Writing by Makini Brice, Editing by Dominique Vidalon)