WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board stated a Tesla Model 3 concerned in a deadly Sept. 13 crash in Coral Gables was touring at excessive pace earlier than it crashed into two timber and caught hearth, in response to a preliminary report.
The crash occurred on a residential avenue with a 30-mile-per-hour pace restrict and resulted within the deaths of the 20-year-old driver and a 19-year-old passenger.
The NTSB stated it recovered about 5 seconds of pre-crash and crash knowledge from the car’s occasion knowledge recorder (EDR). Preliminary analysis of the information indicated “the utmost recorded car pace was 90 mph.”
NTSB repaired and put in the broken knowledge chip from the EDR and put in into an one other recorder so the information might be retrieved. NTSB stated “preliminary analysis of the information indicated that utility of the accelerator pedal ranged from 0 to 100%, the service brake remained off.”
The 2021 Tesla at 8:55 p.m. was touring north on Alhambra Circle because it approached the signal-light-controlled intersection with Coral Method and “handed one other automotive and accelerated because it neared the yellow sign mild on the intersection,” the NTSB stated.
The Tesla continued north by the intersection, traveled about 140 ft and the left entrance of the automotive struck a tree, rotated 90 levels counterclockwise after which collided with a second tree, NTSB stated.
A post-crash hearth badly destroyed the car. “Firefighters confronted challenges in extinguishing the hearth and reported that the car’s batteries reignited a minimum of as soon as,” the NTSB stated.
The hearth destroyed a lot of the car’s inside.
Tesla autos have giant battery packs that typically have been concerned in prolonged fires after crashes and NTSB has investigated quite a few fires of Tesla autos after crashes.
