Tesla’s electric Model X goes through fatal car crash

Just recently, a driver of the electric Tesla Model X died in a car crash after he collided with a median barrier and the car caught fire.

The electric car, Tesla Model X, hit the median barrier on highway 101 in California’s city of Mountain View, as per the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The electric vehicle soon caught fire before being hit by two other cars as well.

As per Electrek, the driver of electric SUV was instantly rushed to the hospital but unluckily passed away because of his severe injuries. The images of the crashed car demonstrated that the front-end of the car was entirely destroyed maybe because of the impact, the extraction process or because of the fire.

A witness Aiden Sanchez informed, “We saw a big cloud of smoke and then all of a sudden, there was a fire ball in the air.”

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Moreover, Elon Musk’s company Tesla too sent its engineers to help the firefighters remove the car and its battery pack from the accident scene. The cause of the fire is still being investigated by the authorities, reported NBC Bay News.

Not much is known about how to deal with crashes related to electric vehicles. “We’re used to regular vehicles, now that we have the batteries in these vehicles, we don’t know what’s in them so we’re learning as we go,” said CHP officer Art Montiel.

A person who helped the man and wished to remain anonymous described the scene saying, “I saw, past the smoke of the smoldering and sputtering Tesla Model X and saw a man running up with a fire extinguisher. I rounded towards what used to be the front of the car and saw, remarkably, an intact man that was covered in a light layer of dust. The front of the car was simply gone.”

He further added that he checked to see if the man had a pulse and soon after knowing the man was alive, he noticed the Tesla wasn’t just smoking, but ‘actively emitting full flames from the battery bank.’

A Good Samaritan at the scene of the Tesla Model X car crash described the car to be "actively emitting full flames from the battery bank." https://t.co/n78v5ekcgV pic.twitter.com/EVGqKJnhcR

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) March 24, 2018

Here is the scene on Highway 101S in #MountainView where a #Tesla caught on fire pic.twitter.com/ksnidlFgsw

— Dean C. Smith (@DeanCSmith) March 23, 2018