ATLANTA — Sunroofs that spontaneously shatter.
Several people told our sister station WSB-TV in Atlanta that this happened to them while driving.
Federal regulators closed their case into the problem without ever determining a cause.
They said it was a safety concern, but many disagree.
April Harvey’s husband was driving their brand new Hyundai Palisade when the sunroof “exploded.”
“All of a sudden he heard a big boom. And then the glass started shattering on him,” Harvey said.
It’s the same thing that happened last year to Kate Holder in her new Jeep Wagoneer.
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“Going 55 miles per hour then all the sudden like an explosion,” Holder told WSB-TV in 2023. “Yes, the most bizarre thing ever.”
But it has happened so frequently that federal regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched a seven-year investigation.
They found that “spontaneous sunroof glass …