Another day, another Tesla crashing into a law enforcement vehicle despite flashing lights.
Officials said the officer had his emergency lights on while conducting the traffic break, but that a 2026 Tesla Model Y did not yield to the officer and crashed into him.
This is a 2026 model already showing Tesla will continue crashing into law enforcement like it’s 2016. A pattern emerges of Tesla safety objectively declining over time, with a rise in crashes into both motorcycles and emergency vehicles, perhaps due to its over reliance on defective AI.
Notably, the first Tesla driverless fatality in 2016 was into the back of a huge high visibility service vehicle flashing its lights.
Just days after an almost identical deadly crash in Germany, another Tesla has suddenly veered into a tree and burned the occupants to death.
An overtaking maneuver resulted in the deaths of a man and his two children. Their car crashed into a tree, burning them to death. The traffic accident occurred in Schwerte (North Rhine-Westphalia) on Sunday afternoon around 2:05 p.m. “The driver of the electric vehicle was attempting to overtake a convoy of cars and, for reasons that are still unclear, left the road. The car then veered into a ditch and came to a stop against a tree,” Bernd Pentrop (54), police spokesperson for the Unna District Police Department, explained to BILD. When the car caught fire, the three occupants were trapped and could not be rescued. According to WDR, the car was a Tesla.
According to California Highway Patrol, a 41-year-old deputy from the Cabazon Station was responding to a call for service with emergency lights and sirens on just after 10 a.m., driving westbound on Cherry Valley Boulevard in his Ford Explorer patrol vehicle. That’s when a Tesla Model 3 made a left turn from Roberts Street onto Cherry Valley — into the deputy’s path. The deputy then slammed into the Tesla. The 21-year-old driver of the Tesla, identified by CHP as Gavin Hinkey, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Such a report reads like a suicide. Although perhaps the driver, like so many of these Tesla crashes, was under the influence of FSD (e.g. asleep).
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