4 Killed After a Tesla Crash Sparks Fire in Toronto: 'A Very Horrific Scene'
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Source: People.com
Four people were killed — and one person was saved by a bystander — after their Tesla erupted in flames after crashing into a pillar on a roadway.
The incident occurred at around 12:10 a.m. local time when an electric vehicle carrying “five occupants” was “going at a high rate of speed," Toronto Police Duty Insp. Phillip Sinclair said in a news conference, according to CBC News.
The 2024 Tesla lost control and struck a guardrail and a concrete pillar, police said in a news release. Upon impact, the vehicle caught fire. Three men aged 26, 29 and 32, as well as one 30-year-old woman, were pronounced dead on the scene, while a 25-year-old woman was transported to the hospital with “non-life threatening injuries,” police said.
Sinclair noted in his press conference that no other vehicles were involved in the crash and that an investigation into what happened is “ongoing.” Deputy Fire Chief Jim Jessop added that they are looking into the possibility of “the intensity of the fire” being linked to the “battery cells” in the car, according to CBC News.
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