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2022 TESLA MODEL Y — SERVICE BRAKES

crash1 injured · 2174216 · 2026-02-06

Vehicle

Make
TESLA
Model
MODEL Y
Year
2022
Manufacturer
Tesla, Inc.
Component
SERVICE BRAKES

Severity

Deaths
0
Injured
1
Fire
No
Crash
Yes
Police report
Yes
Medical attention
No
Vehicle towed
Yes

Narrative

We live on a road with a steep embankment. My wife backed across our driveway and when she put the car from reverse to drive it accelerated uncontrollably. She hit our mailbox, then a power pole across the street, a driveway across the street then over the embankment where she hit a retainer wall another wooden railing and finally came to rest against our neighbors house. If she wouldn’t have caught the edge of the house she would have went down approximately 150 foot embankment. Not only the car accelerated on its own it is supposed to automatically brake, it didn’t and the airbags never deployed. This all this happened right after it went through an automatic update. The car was totaled, with my wife getting a concussion and a lot of muscle injuries. There was no warning lights prior to event and we reported it to Tesla and all they did was send camera images which we had. The car is now in possession of Wawanesa Insurance because it was a total loss

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11716189
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown