(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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