A Tesla Model 3 has been destroyed in a horrific crash in Corvallis, Oregon; but, fortunately, its driver escaped with out severe accidents.

It’s understood that the motive force of the Model 3 was below the affect when he misplaced management of the EV, speared off the highway, smashed via two timber and sheared via an influence pole. The automotive was virtually ripped in half within the crash.

Police imagine the motive force was touring at speeds exceeding 100 miles (160 km/h) on the time of the accident. Images shared on-line by the City of Corvallis Police Department present that elements from the Tesla, included particular person battery cells, had been scattered throughout the road.

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The battery pack of the Model 3 is made up of a number of thousand cylindrical battery cells and the crash was so extreme that it was pierced and particular person cells had been thrown from the crash web site. Furthermore, battery cells broke the home windows of two close by properties. One ended up on a mattress, triggering a fireplace and one other landed on a neighborhood resident’s lap, whereas a tire ripped from the automotive struck the second story siding of a close-by residence complicated and ruptured the water pipes inside the wall, destroying an residence’s rest room and flooding part of the residence.

The Metropolis of Corvallis Police Division mentioned it made a concerted effort to gather as many particular person battery cells as potential however has warned native residents to be looking out for any which will have been missed. It has warned that the cells can keep sizzling for as much as 24 hours and may launch poisonous fumes and substances.

The driving force, Dylan Milota, was reportedly impaired with marijuana on the time and cited at a close-by hospital for DUI – Medicine, Hit and Run, Felony Mischief 2, Reckless Driving and Reckless Endangering.