A Tesla electric vehicle veered off a German road on 7 September 2025, slamming into a tree and erupting in flames that claimed the lives of a father and his two young children. Bystanders and rescuers battled to prise open the car's electronic doors, but the mechanism failed, trapping the family inside as temperatures soared.
Now, amid 2025's surge in Tesla Autopilot investigations, questions mount over whether faulty self-driving features or door designs turned a survivable smash into a deadly inferno.
