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DETROIT (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp said on weekday it would request most 333,000 RAV4 and Highlander SUVs because of the venture airbags sensors could modify and cause the curtain airbags to deploy.

The request covers most 214,000 RAV4 and most 94,000 Highlander SUVs from the 2007 and 2008 help eld in the United States, and most 19,000 RAV4 and 6,000 Highlanders in Canada.

The request only affects vehicles oversubscribed in North America, Toyota said.

Toyota said owners of the vehicles would be notified of the request by accumulation in May.

Toyota said that, in cases where digit sensors modify at almost the same time, the side curtain airbags designed to protect passengers in a rollover happening could be inflated right much an accident.

In cases where meet digit of the sensors fails, the airbags warning reddened module be activated, the maker said.

The sensors were prefabricated by Denso Corp. A Toyota spokesman said a modify was prefabricated in the making of the sensors in Jan 2008 that immobile the supply and that no more recalls on this supply are expected.

The spokesman said he knew of no accidents related to the curtain airbags issue, but said that some secondary injuries hit been reported. He said he did not undergo how some injuries hit been reported.

(Reporting by Kevin Krolicki and Bernie Woodall; redaction by Andre Grenon, Bernard Orr)

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