Shocking video shows Tesla bursting into flames ‘out of the blue’ on a Los Angeles street
‘This is what happened to my husband and his car today,’ actress Mary McCormack said in a tweet accompanying the video. ‘No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd’
Shocking video of a Tesla Model S that burst into flames “out of the blue” while driving down a Los Angeles street has been posted on Twitter by actress Mary McCormack.
“This is what happened to my husband and his car today,” McCormack said. “No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd.”
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“And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him,” she added, after thanking the “kind couple” who told her husband to pull over.
Noting that the video appeared to show a battery fire, a Tesla spokesman called the incident an “extraordinarily unusual occurrence.”
“Our initial investigation shows that the cabin of the vehicle was totally unaffected by the fire due to our battery architecture, which is designed to protect the cabin in the very rare event that a battery fire occurs,” the spokesman said.
“While our customer had time to safely exit the car, we are working to understand the cause of the fire,” the spokesman added. “We’re glad our customer is safe.”
On Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tesla has “shared information about the circumstances” of the incident and the agency plans to investigate.