Woman dies in fiery Tesla crash on Manhattan’s FDR Drive

A pistillate was killed erstwhile her speeding Tesla crashed, overturned, and caught fire connected Manhattan’s FDR Drive aboriginal Tuesday, constabulary said.

The pistillate was zipping uptown erstwhile she mislaid power of the Tesla and struck a guardrail adjacent E. 70th St. connected the Upper East Side astir 2:45 a.m., cops said.

The Tesla overturned, throwing some the pistillate and her 26-year-old rider from the vehicle, earlier catching fire.

The operator was speeding erstwhile she crashed, witnesses told WABC Eyewitness News.

“At slightest 120, 130 (mph). At least,” a witnesser told the station. “The harm was conscionable truthful overmuch that it divided successful half. And that conscionable started going connected fire.”

The pistillate died astatine the scene. Cops were trying to place her Tuesday.

Medics rushed the rider to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, wherever he’s expected to recover.

The northbound lanes to the FDR Drive were unopen down arsenic 60 firefighters and an FDNY hazmat squad were called to extinguish the lithium-ion artillery that powered the Tesla.

The occurrence was enactment retired by 3:50 a.m., cops said.