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Caribbeans

(975 posts) Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:18 PM Nov 13

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.

Read more: https://people.com/4-killed-after-tesla-crash-sparks-fire-in-toronto-8743464

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4 Killed After a Tesla Crash Sparks Fire in Toronto: 'A Very Horrific Scene' (Original Post) Caribbeans Nov 13 OP

Some driver of a postal van smashed a window and applegrove Nov 13 #1

Paging Elon GreenWave Nov 13 #2

took my new markie Nov 13 #3

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 13 #4

AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve Nov 13 #5

applegrove

(123,111 posts)

1. Some driver of a postal van smashed a window and

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:19 PM

Nov 13

got one person out. What a nightmare.

GreenWave

(9,167 posts)

2. Paging Elon

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:19 PM

Nov 13

markie

(22,920 posts)

3. took my new

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:30 PM

Nov 13

EV (not Tesla) into garage to be inspected today... my previous EV was totaled in accident (kid pulled out in front of me on Route 13 in Delaware)
counter person asked about possible fire... now I know why

**my airbags deployed and we smelled smoke but fire dept on scene immediately assured me it was just the smell of the airbags

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)

4. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:49 PM

Nov 13

the driver drove the vehicle into a pillar. How could the car "lose control" all by itself?

Omaha Steve

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5. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2024, 10:10 PM

Nov 13

Way over 12 hours old: Published on November 12, 2024 11:53AM EST

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