Sully's8
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If indeed the car was going about or less than 60-70Mph and has these disturbing disintegration (including battery modules), it is indeed something to worry about for all Tesla owners. It makes me quite worried - to the point of me reading all the pages and hoping Tesla did investigation on their own and determine why the damage was so catastrophic.
I didn't see this story until after I ordered, and it has admittedly given me pause. Part of the selling point of this car to me was safety.
This was a case of operator negligence causing an explosion. When a Tesla operator is not at fault, and within the speed limit, and someone else (negligently or otherwise) precipitates an accident with said innocent (wrong place, wrong time) Tesla operator and the Tesla explodes, scrutiny will increase. I will obviously be telling the wife and kids that if we are ever in an accident, we evacuate and get the hell away from the car. . .maybe by a football field length.
"It is indeed something to worry about for all Tesla owners." Truer words never said.
In the case of the OP accident however, the driver was killed by crash trauma. Had she been alive and functional after the wreck and had she or bystanders been killed standing outside her vehicle when it went off like a midsized bomb, we'd be having a very, very different discussion.
Not to be alarmist, but yikes.