CA Tesla Kills One Cyclist in Intersection Crash

Police reported the cyclist rode “against a red traffic signal”.

…a 38-year-old man was driving a 2023 Tesla Model 3 westbound on Balboa Avenue in the right lane. The vehicle struck the bicyclist in the intersection, police said. The teenager was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

This comes as Elon Musk promotes a video of a Tesla driver ignoring intersections.

“I don’t want to look at every intersection and see, ‘Is this intersection clear, and is that one clear? Is there anybody behind me?’ I don’t want any of that, and I don’t have any of it,” Larry says in the video.

CO Tesla Kills One Pedestrian

Charges against the Tesla driver stem from a 1:36am crash at 80mph into a pedestrian.

Joseph Sutter, 34, is facing vehicular homicide and reckless driving charges in the Aug. 29 crash that killed the 17-year-old boy, the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. The office is not releasing the boy’s name because he was a minor.

Lakewood police were called to the intersection of South Wadsworth Boulevard and West Mexico Place for reports of a crash involving a pedestrian. Officers found the boy lying in the southbound lanes of Wadsworth with severe injuries. He died at the scene.