A Tesla Model 3 on Friday collided with a semi-trailer in Florida resulting in the death of its 50-year-old owner.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Tesla Model 3 is a compact executive car luxury all-electric four-door sedan manufactured and sold by Tesla, Inc.
Report by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department did not indicate if Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash.
The report said the Tesla struck a tractor trailer and the roof was sheared off as it passed underneath the trailer and came to a rest three-tenths of a mile south of the collision.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
Meanwhile, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said they are sending teams to investigate the fatal crash.
A spokesman for the US Transportation Department that oversees NHTSA said late on Friday that “NHTSA’s Crash Investigation Division assigned a Special Crash Investigation team to investigate the crash”, while the NTSB said it is sending a team of three “to conduct a safety investigation”.
Tesla declined to comment on Friday.