You hit a concrete wall at 116 mph, you're toast. This kid was a speed demon and the parents gave him an insanely quick car although they knew he was a dangerous driver.
In May of 2018, two Fort Lauderdale teens were killed and a third was injured after the Tesla Model S driven by 18-year-old Barrett Riley crashed into a concrete wall at 116 mph.
The vehicle quickly caught on fire after the crash, which is not uncommon after violent crashes at high speeds regardless of its electric or gas-powered.
In 2019, Riley’s family decided to sue Tesla over what they claim was a defective battery pack that led to the fire and that Tesla “failed to warn purchasers of its vehicles of the battery’s dangerous condition.”
Furthermore, the lawsuit that Riley’s parents had a speed limiter installed at a Tesla service center two months before the accident, but Riley apparently had it removed at another service center without his parent’s knowledge, which they blamed on the automaker.
Yeah it said the lawsuit was not over the fire, but that someone at telsa removed a speed limiter without the parents knowledge or permission.
Also read that ownership of the car was transferred to the son before he had the limiter mod undone. But never seen that substantiated and gave up digging.
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