Four people died Saturday evening in the accident of a Tesla electric car. An investigation has been opened.
Four people died on Saturday evening in the accident of a Tesla electric car, which caught fire on a departmental road in Deux-Sèvres, we learned from the gendarmerie on Sunday.
The accident occurred for an “undetermined reason”, according to another source close to the gendarmerie.
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The driver and three passengers died
The four people on board the vehicle were “already dead when help arrived,” the gendarmerie said. The accident occurred around 10:45 p.m. Saturday evening near Melle, about twenty kilometers east of Niort.
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The driver was from Niort and the three passengers were employees of a restaurant in Melle, said the other source close to the gendarmerie.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the vehicle hit several road signs at high speed.