In a tragic and often repeating story, another speeding Tesla hit a bump, lost control and killed someone.

According to the Powell Police Department, the crash happened in the 3400 block of Club Way Court at Powell Grand Communities around 9:15 p.m.

One person, Ethan Blecke, was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital where he was pronounced dead hours later. Police Chief Ron Sallows said one other person was hospitalized and is now listed as stable. Three others were treated at the scene.

Sallows said it appears a 16-year-old boy was driving a Tesla, with five other people inside the vehicle, at a high rate of speed when he hit a speed bump, lost control and struck several other vehicles. The Tesla also hit part of a garage attached to one of the apartment buildings.

In the past, news about Tesla-related fatalities usually involved older couples (reflecting the car’s initial marketing strategy as being exclusive to those who could afford one). However, recently, there has been a noticeable move towards reports of groups of teenagers being harmed (reflecting the car’s present reality of being the lawn dart of roads, an inexpensive game of death).

The shift in who is killed likely stems from a dangerous combination affecting a different age group. Elderly couples are now wise to the fraudulent safety claims by Tesla and choose a different brand. However, young adults haven’t gotten the memo to keep them out of a Tesla, combined with an overconfidence making them unable to respond adequately in an unnecessarily powerful car. Essentially, Tesla’s grossly misleading portrayal of its safety continues to exacerbate the risks for those most vulnerable to its awful design and engineering flaws.

Update: the Tesla driver is being charged with homicide.

A 16-year old driver faces several charges, including vehicular homicide, after a crash that killed a fellow 16-year-old in Powell. The driver has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault and reckless operation.

This is reminiscent of the recent tragedy and Tesla trial in New Zealand.

The alleged killer literally admitted his Tesla had made him into a worse driver, a deadly menace not only to himself but anyone around. […] Perhaps a simple empathy test should be required before anyone can turn on the power to these loitering munitions called cars? Don’t know how to safely point the barrel of a loaded rocket launcher? No launch for you.

More teenagers have been killed by “brutal” Tesla.

The collision occurred just before 8 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Vista Del Mar and Imperial Highway, overlooking Dockweiler State Beach in L.A.’s Playa del Rey neighborhood.

The victims were confirmed as two teenage boys who attended a school in the Inglewood Unified School District.

Video from the scene captured by Sky5 shows a massive response by emergency crews; another angle shows a mangled white Tesla near another blue vehicle damaged beyond recognition.

LAFD initially reported one was killed and two had to be extricated.

Firefighters extricated two patients, and transported a total of four patients (3 critical & 1 in fair condition) to local hospitals (ages/genders: 18M, 16M, 18F, 30F). The deceased (unknown age/gender) remains inside one of the wrecked vehicles

The teen driver of the car Tesla crashed into was killed instantly, and was expected to graduate high school the next day.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified David Ceja, 17, who was pronounced deceased at the scene, and Hector Ceja Jr., 15, who died at a local hospital from his injuries.

The two were brothers. Police are investigating and say it’s unclear why the cars crashed head-on.

The clever details in this image from Japan alone are worth talking about. A California license plate, a rubber dummy in a “Police” miniskirt holding a big pink “wand” next to a “Peace” cruiser… it’s all kind of weird and hilarious and yet probably still very effective in reducing threats to the public from high-speed cars.

It’s hard to believe but the last time I wrote about this sort of thing was fourteen years ago: “Drivers Slow for Decoy Police Women (in Skirts)”

Authorities say that life-sized cardboards of female police officers in miniskirts placed alongside roads have managed to slow down speeding drivers…

We’ve come a long way from cardboard. We haven’t come a long way from sensuality and sex as a traffic control device. What a time to be alive.

The Japanese man also deployed well-dressed dummy male police officers sitting next to a giant fake speed camera.

Someone should run the numbers on the physics involved in driving a Tesla at high speed to push a parked pickup 30 feet.

…Tesla Model X struck a Chevrolet Silverado that was parked along Middle Creek Parkway, near Voyager Parkway on the far north side of Colorado Springs. Police found an unconscious occupant on the passenger side of the Tesla. The Tesla collided with the parked Silverado at a speed high enough to move the truck about 30 feet, police said. “The unconscious occupant was determined to be a passenger in the car and was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries,” police said in an online blotter entry.

Several incidents like this have been reported recently, as Tesla for some reason continue to be unable to avoid crashing at full speed into cars around them.

Here’s a case from just a couple days ago that brought homicide charges for the Tesla owner.

Witnesses reported that a Tesla had disregarded the southbound red light on Central Avenue North at Smith Street and collided with a gray Prius in the intersection, then collided with a red Prius that was leaving a restaurant parking lot, according to police. They reported that the red Prius was struck so hard it was pushed into a nearby wall.