WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Goodyear announced Tuesday that it will recall 173,000 G159 tires following a request from U.S. safety regulators to replace them.

In 2017, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), opened an investigation to examine allegations in a case that tires were defective and caused motorhome accidents resulting in injuries or deaths.

NHTSA in February asked Goodyear to recall the tires and Goodyear in March had originally declined the request, the manufacturer said in a filing https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22T009-6772.PDF.

Goodyear claimed in its filing that the recall was being done “to address concern about the possibility of some tires still being on the market”