A serious road accident occurred this Saturday in Paris. Involving a Tesla from the G7 taxi company, there are about ten injured and seven in absolute urgency. Faced with the situation, the company has decided to suspend its drivers who drive Tesla.
While the American authorities are still carrying out their investigation concerning the safety of the Autopilot, here is a new accident calling into question the safety of the vehicles of the American manufacturer. Indeed, a serious road accident occurred this Saturday evening in Paris.
A taxi from the G7 company has lost control of its Tesla in the 13th arrondissement of the capital. For no apparent reason, the vehicle would have accelerated sharply while the brakes were no longer responding, according to the driver. In panic, the driver violently collided with a cyclist on rue d’Ivry, before continuing his race and mowing two other pedestrians at the intersection of rue Tolbiac.
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He loses control of his Tesla and injures a dozen people
Its mad race does not end there, the vehicle then having dashed at full speed into a container of glass waste. In shock, the container was thrown into the air and exploded on the ground. Then the taxi went head-on into a traffic light, before violently hitting another person. The Tesla Model 3 ended up in a van located at the corner of rue Tolbiac and avenues Ivry and de Choisy.
The toll is heavy: around ten injured people, including seven in absolute urgency and three relative. For the time being, we do not know the evolution of the situation. Shortly after the drama, the G7 taxi company has decided to suspend all its Tesla drivers, that is to say 37 employees according to the statements of the company.
For its part, Tesla says it is available to the authorities to transmit all the data it has on the vehicle concerned. Moreover, the manufacturer was clear on the subject: no technical faults were found on the car. However, this is not the driver’s version, which claims to have lost total control of his electric sedan. The investigation is ongoing.
Source: Le Figaro
