(Reuters) -The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday it had opened a probe into about 781,459 Stellantis vehicles over a fire occurring while the vehicle’s ignition was in an ‘OFF’ state.
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received a death and injury report and multiple field reports alleging incidents of fire in the engine compartment in model year 2021-2022 Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles.
The preliminary evaluation will assess the scope, frequency, root cause and possible consequences of the issue, ODI said.
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey and Aishwarya Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas)
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