“Father of Tesla driver: ‘In another vehicle she would have been alive’”
“There is no doubt Casey Speckman was drunk when she crashed her boss’ Tesla in a fiery, explosive wreck that killed him and herself.
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“Alfred Finnell Jr., 81, was driving behind the Tesla and saw the crash. The vehicle sped right by him.
“It passed me like a flash,” Finnell told the Star in a telephone interview. “It hit that curb and plowed into that tree.”
“Finnell stopped his vehicle near the White Castle driveway. The Tesla had spun around the tree and into the garage.
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“Jon Speckman met with the Star on Friday at the downtown office of his attorney. Speckman said he wants the public to know that there was more to the deadly crash than how many drinks his daughter consumed that night.”
Were the screwworms driving the Tesla? Or did they eat the control electronics from the inside out and cause the crash?
Someone with a BAC that high shouldn’t be operating a toaster, let alone a powerful vehicle.
Good grief. After reading that article, I am nearly speechless.
She was completely hammered. Good thing some innocent driver or bystander was not killed.
In the article, they were talking about how overpowered the car is, and if someone accidentally hits the gas instead of the brake...
If the girl hadn’t been so intoxicated, maybe her foot wouldn’t be likely to hit the gas instead of the brake, or she might have the faculties to be able to maneuver the car to navigate a turn or avoid a hazard.
Lawsuits like this just piss me off. I hold no water for Tesla.