A horrific crash in Toronto has left four people dead and another badly injured, after a Tesla crashed into a guard rail before catching alight and exploding
Four people have been killed in a shocking road accident involving a Tesla and a guard rail in Toronto, Canada.
On Thursday afternoon, the speeding vehicle collided with a guard rail, before catching alight and exploding. The horrific accident led to the deaths of four people, with a fifth person seriously injured.
Siblings, Ketaba and Nil Gohil from Gujarat were travelling with Jairaj Singh Sisodia and Digvijay Patel on Lake Shore Boulevard East in downtown Toronto at around midnight on Thursday.
Just before 12.15am, the driver of the 2024 Tesla lost control of the vehicle and veered into a guard rail, with the Tesla then spinning into a concrete pillar before exploding.
The driver and three passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while a fourth passenger was miraculously pulled from the burning car alive.
‘We were on the opposite side of the river and we heard the tires squealing and we heard the impact,’ Keith Barrow, a foreman at QM environmental, told The Star.
‘So I drove over to DVP and Lake Shore and by that time, the flames were 20, maybe 30 feet high. It was scary to see.’
By the time Keith had made it to the crash site a few minutes later, there were five other cars already pulled over, with people trying to break the burning car’s windows and get the driver and passengers out.
Rick Harper, another passerby who pulled over to help after seeing the flames, said that he saw the Tesla was full of smoke, and said he could hear ‘faint voices’ screaming to be let out.
Although Rick was unable to save the driver and three of the passengers, he did manage to pull the only survivor, a 25-year-old woman, from the car.
He explained: “I took a few swings at the window, and I passed the bar onto the fella beside me, and he took a few swings, and then the window came out.
“And then it was good to see the young lady come out head first out of the window.’
But he didn’t know about the four others that were trapped inside. The surviving young woman didn’t offer any additional information immediately after her rescue.
“There was panic in her eyes. Nobody asked her anything,’ Harper added. “She probably wouldn’t be able to talk. We just assumed it was a driver who was trapped, and without fire equipment, we couldn’t do anything for the driver.”
The devastating fire was ‘most likely fuelled’ by the Tesla’s battery, according to Toronto Police and Fire officials.
