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Toyota recalls 15,000 vehicles in Norway over faulty seatbelts

Xinhua, February 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Toyota Motor is recalling about 15,000 RAV4 sports utility vehicles in Norway as part of its global mass recall due to a safety issue with the seatbelts, local media reported on Thursday.

"It is true that we have many RAV4 vehicles on the roads in Norway and in total there are around 15,000 cars involved," Espen Olsen, PR chief at Toyota Norway, told Norway's online business newspaper E24.

"We follow up factory recall with high priority as usual, and will shortly send out letters to all the involved car owners in Norway," he added.

The world's biggest-selling automaker said earlier Thursday it is recalling nearly 2.9 million vehicles due to the possibility that their seatbelts could be damaged by a metal seat frame part in a crash.

The global recall covers Toyota Motor's RAV4 SUVs produced between July 2005 and August 2014 and sold worldwide, and its Vanguard SUVs produced between October 2005 and January 2016 and sold in Japan.

The recall includes about 1.3 million vehicles in North America, 625,000 in Europe, 434,000 in China, 177,000 in Japan and 307,000 in other regions. Enditem