An incident involving Tesla on Tesla violence was just lately filmed inside a tunnel in Hong Kong. The accident noticed a Mannequin Y collide with a curb contained in the tunnel, after which careen right into a Mannequin S going the wrong way.

Footage of the incident, which occurred on January 12, 2023, at round 1:00 a.m. was posted on Youtube and Fb. Hong Kong Information stories that the collision occurred within the Hung Hom Cross-Harbour Tunnel, between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.

The accident was brought on by a black Tesla Mannequin Y, which was getting into the tunnel. Its driver appears to not discover that there’s a jog within the highway, with a curb that grows out of the wall and runs alongside the aspect of the tunnel.

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The crossover hits the curb, which sends it careening to the precise, into the opposing lane of site visitors. It’s arduous to say with certainty what was occurring contained in the automobile, however it seems that the Mannequin Y really accelerates into the opposing lane, suggesting that the motive force might have mistakenly hit the accelerator pedal as an alternative of the brake.

That sends the Mannequin Y into the trail of a silver Mannequin S and provides the sedan driver virtually no time to react and nowhere to go, main inevitably to a collision. Pictures of the aftermath of the accident present that the injury was fairly extreme, with the airbags deployed, the hoods crumpled, and each entrance bumpers considerably damaged.

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Hong Kong information stories that three individuals had been injured within the incident and despatched to hospital, together with the drivers of each EVs and one passenger. A 3rd automobile, in the meantime, that was following the silver Tesla additionally suffered injury after it was unable to cease in time.

It isn’t recognized if the motive force of the Mannequin Y merely wasn’t paying shut sufficient consideration and bumped into the curb, or if different components (akin to a driver help system) had been concerned. By the best way, each the Mannequin Y and the Mannequin S had been named a number of the most secure automobiles of 2022 by Euro NCAP.