On Tuesday, a minivan and a Tesla were involved in a collision that claimed the lives of four individuals in Martin County, Florida. After the accident, the Tesla began to burn. A spectator who tried to pull a teenager from the path of a speeding Tesla recounted the experience as follows: “I was face to face. It was bursting, so I attempted to go beneath the vehicle to do what I could, but everyone was shouting, “the car is going to explode, the car is going to explode.” I was unable to rescue the trapped child physically.
WPTV quotes a spokesperson for the Florida Highway Patrol as saying that a Tesla sedan flipped over and caught fire after colliding with the right front of a Chrysler minivan at an intersection.
The Tesla had been approaching the junction from the south in the inside lane of Federal Highway, while the minivan was coming from the north in the left lane of Federal Highway and performing a left turn within the intersection.
The Tesla driver tragically perished in the collision. A boy with a 2004 birthdate would have been around 17 or 18 years old at the time. His female passenger, who was between the ages of 18 and 19, was born in 2003, was injured, and subsequently passed away at a local hospital.
The male minivan driver, would have been 69 or 70 years old had he been born in 1952. Their female passenger, who was born in 1949 and would have been 72 or 73 at the time of the accident, also perished.
An emotional witness told WPTV, “I witnessed what was hauled out of the Tesla, and they were kids, they were kids.” As the second man was being dragged out, I saw them draw the curtain over the body.
Another eyewitness stated to the media that he had attempted to get the youngsters out of the burning Tesla.
There was no avoiding eye contact. It was bursting, so I attempted to go beneath the vehicle to do what I could, but everyone was shouting, “the car is going to explode, the car is going to explode.” There was a child in there, but I couldn’t get to him,” he claimed.
The Good Samaritan then ran to the minivan, where he noticed the woman was still alive. He freed her from her safety harness and started performing CPR.
“I was saying wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, and that was it,” he added. Sincerely, my sympathies are with them; I regret not being able to help them more.
The inquiry into the crash’s cause continues.