Yesterday, a car owner said that he was driving a Tesla and encountered a horror moment on the highway. According to the owner of the car, he was driving normally at a speed of 110 km/h on the expressway when the right rear wheel of the vehicle suddenly fell off, and the vehicle lost control and hit a large truck in the adjacent lane.
Due to the sudden incident and the fast speed, the car had no time to brake, so the Tesla was pushed forward for 300 meters before it stopped slowly. The owner claimed that his wife was still in the car at the time. Fortunately, the accident did not cause any injuries. What puzzled him was that half a month ago, he had just gone to Tesla for maintenance, so he did not understand why the rear wheel will fall off immediately.
Judging from the accident scene, after the right rear wheel of the Tesla fell, there were also suspension links and brake discs connected to it, but the wheel was completely deformed due to the strong impact force.
However, when looking at the driving record video at the time of the accident, another situation appeared: the recorder was normal half an hour before the accident, but the recorder at the time of the accident was gone. At that time, he wanted to save it, but the car machine showed that it was unavailable and there was no place to save it.
In response to the accident, Tesla insiders responded in an interview with the media: the incident vehicle collided with the vehicle in the right lane while driving, and during the rubbing and squeezing process, the right rear wheel was damaged. Damage was caused, resulting in the deformation and separation of the wheels. The accident caused by the falling off of the wheel spread on the Internet is inconsistent with the facts and has nothing to do with the previous recall.