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Fiery Tesla Crash Traps and Kills Four After Electric Doors Couldn't Open

18 points by iancmceachern 2y ago

marai2 2y ago
Anecdotal: Driving by my house (last month?) i saw a lane blocked and multiple police cars and various safety vehicles. As we drove past, i saw a Tesla Model X or Y, had gone over the median / lane divider, which is what 5” high? But the car was burnt crisp. You couldn’t tell what the original color of the car might have been. The road around it itself was charred black. There was no other car around to suggest a collision with another vehicle and there was no structural damage to the car. Made me think that maybe the car’s undercarriage hitting the median caused something to start the fire. But i’ve rarely seen a car burnt completely black, inside and out.
jonpurdy 2y ago
Just calling out the poor way this (and many) articles write about car accidents. I’m not a Tesla fan at all but blaming Tesla for the crash is incorrect. (It is correct to blame them for the way the door locks work though and therefore can be blamed for the excess injuries/deaths that result from the design decision.) From the article: > Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month. > Five people were trapped inside a Tesla Model Y after it crashed and burst into flames The Tesla didn’t lose control, the human driver lost control of the vehicle. From a previous article the day after: > Police said the driver of the Tesla lost control of the vehicle while travelling at a high rate of speed and collided with a guard rail. The vehicle then struck a concrete pillar, they said, before bursting into flames. If it wasn’t for the irresponsible driving on the part of the human driver, this incident wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. The driver paid for this with their and others’ lives.
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158391

18 points by iancmceachern 2y ago

Anecdotal: Driving by my house (last month?) i saw a lane blocked and multiple police cars and various safety vehicles. As we drove past, i saw a Tesla Model X or Y, had gone over the median / lane divider, which is what 5” high? But the car was burnt crisp. You couldn’t tell what the original color of the car might have been. The road around it itself was charred black. There was no other car around to suggest a collision with another vehicle and there was no structural damage to the car. Made me think that maybe the car’s undercarriage hitting the median caused something to start the fire. But i’ve rarely seen a car burnt completely black, inside and out.

jonpurdy 2y ago

Just calling out the poor way this (and many) articles write about car accidents. I’m not a Tesla fan at all but blaming Tesla for the crash is incorrect. (It is correct to blame them for the way the door locks work though and therefore can be blamed for the excess injuries/deaths that result from the design decision.) From the article: > Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month. > Five people were trapped inside a Tesla Model Y after it crashed and burst into flames The Tesla didn’t lose control, the human driver lost control of the vehicle. From a previous article the day after: > Police said the driver of the Tesla lost control of the vehicle while travelling at a high rate of speed and collided with a guard rail. The vehicle then struck a concrete pillar, they said, before bursting into flames. If it wasn’t for the irresponsible driving on the part of the human driver, this incident wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. The driver paid for this with their and others’ lives.

ChrisArchitect 2y ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158391