The owner of the electric car Tesla Model X was killed due to an accident on the 101 freeway in mountain view (CA).
On the morning of 23 March, blue Tesla, follow the motorway South, crashed into the dividing line and caught fire.
A few seconds in a burning car drove Mazda, and then Audi, police said Redwood city, whose office is the scene.
The front part, Tesla has been damaged so much that investigators didn’t immediately determine her model. At first they thought it was a Model S.
The flyover to SR-85 s/b, and lanes #1 & 2 of the US-101 s/b remain close until @Tesla engineers advice it’s safe to move vehicle. Unknown time of reopening ay this time https://t.co/EUPoOIjSvm
— CHP Redwood City (@CHP_RedwoodCity) March 23, 2018
38-year-old driver of the electric vehicle, whose name was not released, was taken to hospital with multiple injuries. The night of the 24th of March he died.
Update — Unfortunately, the driver of the Tesla succumbed to his injuries at Stanford.
— CHP Redwood City (@CHP_RedwoodCity) March 23, 2018
The first fatal accident involving a Tesla electric car took place in may 2016 in Florida when the Tesla Model S crashed into a tractor trailer: included electronic autopilot system used in the test mode, didn’t recognize the white side of the tractor against the bright sky.
The cause of the accident in California is established.
