Two people died when a Tesla going at a high speed with no one in the driver’s collided into a tree and caught fire in an area near Houston, Texas, authorities said Monday.
April 19 (UPI) — Two passengers died when a Tesla moving at a high speed in Texas with no one in the driver’s seat collided into a tree and caught fire, authorities said Monday. The crash of the Tesla Model S Saturday night in a Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, killed a person in the front passenger seat and another person in the rear seat of the car, Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told CNN. « I can tell you our investigators are certain no one was in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash, » Herman added in the CNN report. Authorities have not yet released names of the 69-year-old and 59-year-old killed in the crash. The 2019 Tesla Model S was driving at a high speed when it failed to navigate a curve and ran off the road, hit a tree and burst into flames near the Woodlands, about 30 miles north of Houston, Herman said.
