« No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over, »
In a tweet directed at Tesla, actress Mary McCormack shared a video of her husband’s Model S ablaze in Los Angeles.
« No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over, » she wrote.
« … thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him. »
The dramatic footage, posted on Saturday, shows fire spewing out the side of the car.
Firefighters arrived on the scene to extinguish the blaze.
In a statement to ABC News, a Tesla spokesperson wrote, « We offer our support to local authorities and are glad our customer is safe. This is an extraordinarily unusual occurrence, and we are investigating the incident to find out what happened. »
The « West Wing » actress specified in a later tweet that her husband’s Tesla was not on autopilot.
Lt. Dan Nagelmann, from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told ABC it was either a battery or mechanical issue that caused the fire and that there was no collision.
McCormack is married to British director Michael Morris, who has directed episodes of Netflix’s « House of Cards », « 13 Reasons Why », and more.
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