Nissan warns owners of older vehicles not to drive them due to risk of exploding air bag inflators

Wednesday's urgent request comes after one person in a Nissan was killed by an exploding front-passenger inflator.Nissan is urging the owners of 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata airbag inflators have an increased risk of exploding.

"Due to the age of the vehicles equipped with defective Takata airbag inflators, there is an increased risk the inflator could explode during an airbag deployment, propelling sharp metal fragments which can cause serious injury or death," Nissan said in a statement. "Even minor crashes can result in exploding Takata air bags that can kill or produce life-altering, gruesome injuries," the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement. "Older model year vehicles put their occupants at higher risk, as the age of the air bag is one of the contributing factors."

The death is one of 27 in the U.S. caused by the faulty inflators, which used volatile ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate air bags in a crash. The chemical can deteriorate over time when exposed to high temperatures and humidity. It can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and spewing shrapnel. More than 400 people in the U.S. have been hurt.

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