The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into claims that Tesla’s door handles become inoperable in certain situations on Model Y SUVs.

The safety agency’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) revealed the probe on Tuesday, after having received nine reports from owners who were unable to get into their cars. ODI writes that the most common scenario involves parents who exit their car and cannot open the rear doors to remove their children.

In four of those cases, according to the ODI report, owners had to break a window “to regain entry into the vehicle.”

News of the probe comes a few days after Bloomberg published an investigation into a series of incidents where Tesla owners (and passengers) became stuck inside their vehicles following a cra

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