Tesla Crashes Into Gas Pump Causing Explosion - Fire Crews Have To Use 40 Times The Water To Put It Out

A Tesla was left completely charred after its driver crashed into a traffic light pole and into a gas pump in an Austin neighborhood.

The Austin Fire Department said the Tesla took out the northbound traffic signal in the 2600 block of Exposition Boulevard, near Westover Road in Tarrytown, before 2 a.m. on Thursday.

A male juvenile that was driving the Tesla Model X then crashed into a gas pump at a Shell station, causing the vehicle to burst into flames.

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