2011 Nissan Sentra engine problems

My son was driving my car nissan sentra 2011 on 405 freeway in the carpool lane at about 65MPH. The engine cut off. He told me that he tried to get over while the car was still coasting but the vehicle completely stopped in one of the lanes. He put on the emergency flashers and called home. He told us that the car had cut off and wouldn't start back up. He said that other cars were just flying by at fast speed. We told him and his friends to stay in the car where we felt it to be safer at the time.

In 2007, nissan recalled more than 140,000 altimas due to the possibility of fire related to the cars air filter. There was substantial media coverage of the large recall. We own a 2011 nissan sentra, which we purchased for our teenage daughter. According to courtesy nissan in richardson, texas, the cause of a recent vehicle break down with our sentra was an air filter fire, which also caused fire damage to the airbox. This is the same defect which resulted in nissan's 2007 recall.