Two men were killed in a car accident in Texas on Saturday after authorities said a person driving a Tesla hit a tree.
The crash happened at 11:25 p.m. in a residential area near the Woodlands, an area about 30 miles north of Houston, NBC subsidiary KPRC reported. According to the station, the vehicle, a 2019 Tesla, was traveling at high speed when it ran off the road, hit a tree and burst into flames.
Mark Herman, constable of the Harris County Precinct 4, told KPRC that a preliminary investigation revealed “no one was driving the car” when the accident occurred. One person was in the passenger seat and another one in the back seat, he said.
The names of the victims were not released by authorities Monday morning.
Delegates used more than 30,000 gallons of water to put out the flames as the vehicle’s battery kept the fire burning again, authorities said.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2018, a 38-year-old driver in Mountain View, California, died after a Tesla Model X that was on an ATM crashed into a concrete divider and caught fire. The company said at the time that the driver took no action, which had a 5-second view of the concrete divider.
And in 2016, a 40-year-old driver in Florida died in a Tesla Model S on a steering wheel that could not stop when a tractor trailer turned left in front of the vehicle.
