Japan's second-largest automaker has informed the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about its plans to replace passenger-side air bags of the affected Sentras, a spokesman said.
Bloomberg reported earlier the expansion followed a March 21accident in which a woman was injured from shrapnel in her 2006Sentra in Louisiana, which is one of the states covered in Nissan's regional recall.
Since 2008, about a dozen automakers have recalled nearly 25million vehicles equipped with potentially deadly Takata-made air bag inflators, which can explode with too much force and shoot metal shards into occupants.
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