General Motors (GM) has issued its 30th recall of this year, calling back 500 redesigned pickup trucks and SUVs.
The 2014 and 2015 models of the vehicles were recalled because of an issue with the control module for the airbags, according to WTSP.
The recall is GM's seventh of last week's, and the 30th since Jan. 1. Close to 13.79 million vehicles in the U.S. are covered in the recalls of 2014.
The automaker is currently in the middle of a company-wide safety review after its handling of the recall of over 2.6 million small cars with malfunctioning ignition switches, CBS News reported. The company said it knew about the issue with the switches for over 10 years before it started to recall the cars in February.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in a statement, "The final death toll associated with this safety defect is not known to NHTSA, but we believe it's likely that more than 13 lives were lost."
GM said that for the latest recall, 500 trucks cannot be sold until repairs are made. The trucks have not been shipped from their plants yet and are still at dealerships. GM added that the "stop-sale" order only applies to this group of vehicles because no other vehicles like this group are affected, WTSP reported.
"The announcement of this recall demonstrates GM's commitment to quickly identifying recall conditions to minimize the impact on customers," said Alan Adler, spokesman for GM.
The recall follows the automaker's announcement of a new team of five executives that was put together to determine when and if the company should issue recalls for its vehicles. The team will be led by global product chief Mark Reuss, USA Today reported.
The Reuss team aims to improve GM's response to safety issues and improve communication between the company and customers and government regulators. The team is one of the company's latest moves for organizational change since the February recall.
Jeff Boyer, the recently appointed chief executive of GM, said in an interview on Thursday that the company's team of 55 product investigators is looking at current defect data and using other sources to find problems. For example, the team is using social media to see if customers and other people are talking about problems with their cars online, WTSP reported.
Reuss said to Brian Johnson, an analyst for Barclays, on Thursday that more announcements stemming from this effort to reexamine safety issues could come through mid-summer.
