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2025 TESLA MODEL 3 — STRUCTURE:BODY

crash · 2193468 · 2026-04-03

Vehicle

Make
TESLA
Model
MODEL 3
Year
2025
Manufacturer
Tesla, Inc.
Component
STRUCTURE:BODY
Speed
3 mph

Severity

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

Narrative

On April 23, 2025, at approximately 8:15 PM, I activated Tesla's Smart Summon feature to retrieve my vehicle from a parking spot. While operating autonomously under Smart Summon, the vehicle failed to detect a pole in the parking area and drove into it, causing approximately $11,000 in damage to the vehicle. I was not inside or manually controlling the vehicle at the time. The vehicle's autonomous driving software failed to identify and avoid a stationary obstacle.

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11729029
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown