A young pistillate has been killed successful a occurrence shot aft crashing her Tesla into a guardrail connected a engaged New York City highway.
The pistillate driver, 26, was violently ejected from the conveyance and pronounced dormant astatine the country aft crashing into a guardrail on Manhattan's FDR Drive aboriginal Tuesday.
Her 26-year-old antheral rider is present warring for his beingness but presently successful unchangeable information astatine the hospital.
He was thrown from the car and rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell with superior injuries.
The high-speed collision occurred conscionable aft 2:30am erstwhile the electrical conveyance flipped and burst into a monolithic fireball adjacent the 70th Street exit.
The car bursted into flames aft it deed the guardrail, ejecting some passengers.
Witnesses claimed the Tesla was speeding earlier the catastrophic crash, with 1 section telling Eyewitness News the conveyance was going 'at slightest 120, 130 mph' earlier the tragic accident.
A young pistillate has been killed successful a occurrence shot aft crashing her Tesla into a guardrail connected a engaged New York City highway
The high-speed collision occurred conscionable aft 2:30am erstwhile the electrical conveyance flipped and burst into a monolithic fireball adjacent the 70th Street exit
'He was going astatine slightest 120, 130 (mph). At least,' the witnesser told Eyewitness News.
'And past erstwhile helium deed the different car, the harm was conscionable truthful overmuch that it divided successful half. And that conscionable started going connected fire,' helium continued.
Another witnesser told Pix11: 'We conscionable got retired to tally and spot if helium was okay. And helium was hardly moving.'
'Part of the car was possibly a mates of feet away, and we asked him, "Hey, was idiosyncratic other successful the car?"'
Chilling images uncover the demolition successful the aftermath of the tragic accident, with debris scattered and immense chunks of twisted metallic spewed crossed aggregate lanes of the usually engaged highway.
At slightest 60 firefighters and an FDNY hazmat squad were called to extinguish the lithium-ion artillery that powered the Tesla.
The pistillate driver, 26, was violently ejected from the conveyance and pronounced dormant astatine the country aft crashing into a guardrail connected Manhattan's FDR Drive aboriginal Tuesday
Her 26-year-old antheral rider is present warring for his beingness but presently successful unchangeable information astatine the hospital. He was thrown from the car and rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell with superior injuries
The occurrence was enactment retired by 3:50 am, cops told NY Daily News.
The FDR Drive was closed successful some directions adjacent the accident
The names of the victims of the mishap person not yet been identified.