A Tesla brand electric car caught fire on Saturday October 12, 2024, around 10:45 p.m., about twenty kilometers from Niort (Deux-Sèvres). The four occupants died.
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Four people died in the fire of a Tesla electric vehicle, Saturday October 12, 2024, in Deux-Sèvres. | MICHEL COUPARD, WEST FRANCE
Four occupants of a Tesla electric car died after it caught fire on the evening of Saturday October 12, 2024, around 10:45 p.m. The accident took place on a departmental road near Melle, around twenty kilometers east of Niort (Deux-Sèvres).
The reason for the accident still “undetermined”
According to a source close to the gendarmerie, the accident occurred for a “undetermined reason”, reports Agence France-Presse. The four people in the vehicle were “already dead when help arrived”. The driver was from Niort. The three passengers were employees of a restaurant in Melle.
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An investigation has been opened to determine the causes of this tragedy. According to the first elements of this, the car would have hit several road signs at high speed.
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