(Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. plans to expand a regional U.S.recall of cars with potentially defective Takata Corp. air bagsafter a woman said she was injured last month by shrapnel from thedevice in her 2006 Sentra sedan.

Nissan will file an incident report with the U.S. NationalHighway Traffic Safety Administration later Thursday to expand itsrecall, a company spokesman, Steve Yaeger, said in an interview.The expansion will cover Sentras from the 2004 to 2006 model yearsthat weren’t part the earlier regional recall, Yaeger said.

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“Before that accident we didn’t have enough data to recall,”Yaeger said. “We’re moving as quickly as we can to expand therecalls.”

Regulators are investigating air-bag inflators that maymalfunction, deploying with so much force that the part breaks andhurls metal shrapnel at the car’s occupants. At least fivefatalities in the U.S. and more than 100 injuries have beenreported industrywide.

Earlier Thursday, lawyers for 20-year-old Sabra Wilson, whosuffered cuts, burns and partial hearing loss in a March 21accident in Louisiana, filed a lawsuit alleging the Sentra’spassenger-side air bag deployed even though no one was in theseat.

Ten automakers, including Nissan, Honda Motor Co. and ToyotaMotor Corp., since 2008 have recalled about 17 million vehicleswith Takata air bags. Last year, five automakers upgraded recallsfor drivers’ side air bags at NHTSA’s urging.

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Nissan had already recalled more than 600,000 vehicles to fixpassenger-side air bags, though not for the model Wilson wasdriving.

In 2013, the Yokohama, Japan-based company initially recalled438,302 cars in the U.S., including the 2001-2003 Maxima,Pathfinder, Infiniti I30 and I35 and the 2002-2003 Sentra andInfiniti QX4 and the 2003 FX. It expanded the national recall by anadditional 226,326 vehicles last June.

Also last year, the company initiated a separate regional recallin the high-humidity regions of Florida, Georgia, coastal areas ofAlabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, as well as Hawaii,Puerto Rico, and tropical U.S. territories. That action covered the2003-2004 Pathfinder, the 2004-2006 Sentra, and five Infinitimodels: 2003-2005 FX35 and FX45, the 2003-2004 I35 and the 2006 M35and M45.

Yaeger said Nissan will begin notifying affected owners aboutthe expanded recall within 60 days.

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