Some 110 crashes and 52 injuries were allegedly caused by sudden, unprompted acceleration in Tesla vehicles between 2012 and 2019.
: The National Transportation Highway Safety Administration is reviewing a petition of 127 consumer complaints claiming that an unintended acceleration problem across three Tesla models is responsible for 110 accidents and 52 injuries between 2012 and 2019.
The claims were made against 123 unique vehicles across the Tesla Model S between 2012 and 2019, the Tesla Model X between 2016 and 2019, and the Tesla Model 3 between 2018 and 2019. Some 500,000 cars across the model ranges could be formally investigated if the agency decides to launch an official probe into the complaints.
It is not known who brought the complaints, but they include accidents that occured as people were pulling out of a parking space or trying to park the car in a garage. Others complained of sudden acceleration while in traffic. One complaint from the driver said a 2015 Model S was closed when it began “accelerating forward towards the street and crashed into a parked car,”The agency said in a statement: “As is the agency’s standard practice in such matters, NHTSA will carefully review the petition and relevant data.”: Tesla has come under fire for safety issues before.
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