A Tesla ended up inside a California family’s home early Friday morning after the driver lost control, struck an embankment and sent the vehicle careening through a nearby yard, driveway and over a swimming pool before crashing into another home’s kitchen.
San Mateo police were called to a quiet residential area shortly after 7 a.m. Friday after a 70-year-old woman’s Tesla Model X crashed into a home, Jerami Surratt, public information officer for the department, told SFGate.
“Obviously a major collision like that doesn’t happen every day, so several officers responded to make sure everyone was okay and no one was hurt,” he said.
The driver and his daughter, 40, who was in the passenger seat, remained at the scene following the accident.
Neither was injured, and the home was unoccupied at the time of the crash, police said.
Police said the crash happened shortly after 7 a.m. Friday. San Mateo Police Department
Meredith Donato, whose family has lived in the house for 25 years, was relieved her mother was not home at the time of the accident.
“Honestly I’m surprised no one was hurt… if my mom had been in the house, she would have been drinking her tea at 7 in the morning in the kitchen,” Donato told KTVU. “Obviously there is property damage, but at the end of the day it’s just stuff.”
According to police, the Tesla flew 40 to 50 feet in the air, soared over a lawn, and a driveway and struck two parked cars before crashing into a house.
No one was injured in the accident. San Mateo Police Department
The Tesla was traveling downhill and was not in self-driving mode at the time of the incident, Surratt added.
“There were witnesses in the neighborhood who saw the Tesla slow to a stop and accelerate very quickly, but what happened is still under investigation,” he said.
The collision left “a good chunk of the wall,” Surratt said, forcing firefighters to pull the vehicle out of the residence.
The cause of the crash has yet to be determined. San Mateo Police Department
The house was then red-tagged so it could be inspected for structural damage.
The cause of the crash has yet to be determined, Surratt said.
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