Airbag Risks: GM Recalls Almost 1 Million US Vehicles

A car and its airbag are pictured after a frontal crash test with another car, without a safety belt buckled in the back seat, as part of France's Road Safety Commission's campaign "Buckle your seat belt, be attached to life" on Nov. 7, 2017. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images

General Motors has announced a recall of nearly a million vehicles in the United States after a potentially dangerous defect in their airbags came to light.

The May 10 recall covers 994,763 vehicles manufactured by GM. This includes 244,304 Buick Enclave 2014-2017 model vehicles, 457,316 Chevrolet Traverse 2014-2017 models, and 293,143 GMC Acadia 2014-2017 vehicles.