South Korea’s Ministry of Transportation announced earlier this year that it was investigating the safety of Tesla’s electric vehicles, including the safety issues of the automatic driving assistance system. (Reuters)
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(Zaobao News) South Korean police are investigating the fatal crash of a Tesla electric car that occurred on Wednesday night.
South Korean police said on Thursday (10th) that the accident occurred in the parking lot of an apartment building in Seoul, South Korea's capital, and that the culprit was a Tesla Model X. The driver reported to the police that the vehicle suddenly lost control and crashed into a wall, killing one passenger in the vehicle and injuring two people.
Police said the Model X caught fire after the crash and it took about an hour to put out the fire. South Korean forensic institutions will investigate the vehicle to determine the cause of the accident.
According to reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in January this year that it would review a petition requesting the agency to formally investigate and recall 500,000 Tesla vehicles because these vehicles may suddenly accelerate unexpectedly. This petition involves Tesla Model S from 2012 to 2019, Model X from 2016 to 2019, and Model 3 from 2018 to 2019.
In the first 11 months of this year, Tesla sold 11,601 electric cars in South Korea, compared with 2,430 in the entire year of last year.
Earlier this year, South Korea’s Ministry of Transportation announced that it was investigating the safety of Tesla’s electric vehicles, including the safety of the Autopilot (automatic assisted driving system) function.
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