Exclusive: Air bag accident, lawsuit led to GM Cruze recall

DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - An accident that left a Georgia woman blind in one eye and a subsequent lawsuit led to General Motors Co's (GM.N) recall of about 33,000 Chevrolet Cruze sedans in North America for potentially defective air bags made by Takata Corp(7312.T). The lawsuit by Brandi Owens, filed in late April in federal court in Atlanta against GM and Takata, claims her car and driver-side air bag were "defective and unreasonably dangerous," citing a problem that has dogged Takata for several years - air bag inflators that explode with too much force. In documents filed on Thursday with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, GM said it had learned of a lawsuit on May 1 regarding a Chevrolet Cruze with an improperly deployed air bag. GM inspected the vehicle four days later and briefed officials at the U.S. safety agency in late May and twice in early June.

via Business News - Yahoo Finance http://ift.tt/1yTeOC1