2 killed after Tesla Plaid crashes into Palm Harbor home

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PALM HARBOR, Fla. (WFLA) — Two people are dead after a car crashed into a Palm Harbor house Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The FHP said four men were heading north on Manning Road in a 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid at a high speed when the driver failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Manning Road and Hermosa Drive.

An FHP report states that the driver hit the embankment while going through the intersection, launching the car in the air before it crashed into a house on Caird Way, going through the home’s exterior rear walls.

The FHP said the car hit and killed one of the three residents at the home, a 69-year-old woman. The driver and two passengers suffered serious injuries while another passenger, a 43-year-old man from Odessa, died at a hospital, according to the highway patrol.

The Tesla was not in autopilot mode at the time of the wreck, the FHP said.

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Well that didn't take long. Well goes to show no matter of the method fast is fast and skill often runs out before sense.
Sad anyone lost their lives.

Serious question. Is that how the car looked or did they cut it. If so is there protocol with cutting into an EV. I mean I guess all the high energy stuff in on the underside.
 
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My cousins and I had little five horse minibikes that did 20mph and we managed to do stupid shit with them. It's not the horsepower.
 

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The lady was eating ice cream on her couch, ended up dead in her front yard.

The owner of the car let his friend drive. The owner was the only one in the car that died, impaled in the chest by a 2x6 truss

Attached photos are the street and the stop sign.

There's a time and a place, and this street is not the place. I'd be shocked if alcohol wasn't involved
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The lady was eating ice cream on her couch, ended up dead in her front yard.

The owner of the car let his friend drive. The owner was the only one in the car that died, impaled in the chest by a 2x6 truss

Attached photos are the street and the stop sign.

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RIP to the victim who was killed in her house. Looks like having a house at t-junction is not a good idea. I wonder how often that happens? The stretch of road was way too short for a fast car like the Plaid.
 

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Off topic but do any of the “climate change/we need electric cars” people consider how much juice all these hipo EV cars take?

I mean I think it’s cool tech but kinda defeats the purpose of being conservative no?


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Off topic but do any of the “climate change/we need electric cars” people consider how much juice all these hipo EV cars take?

I mean I think it’s cool tech but kinda defeats the purpose of being conservative no?


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There are 25 other EV threads, not every thread has to be that. Why I put "green" in the quotes. High performance and efficient hardly ever goes hand and hand. Well, efficient maybe, conservative no. It is basic physics making objects move, especially fast costs energy. It's a marketing proof of concept to try to win people over that an EV doesn't mean driving a miserable Prius type.

I will say there are going to be a few new people with less of a driving passion with FAST cars since these hit an interesting niche. There are plenty of supercar crash complications on YouTube though. If Boogie Man is right it sounds like someone who didn't know braking distance.
 

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Off topic but do any of the “climate change/we need electric cars” people consider how much juice all these hipo EV cars take?

I mean I think it’s cool tech but kinda defeats the purpose of being conservative no?


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Lol, you'll never get the answer your looking for. Because lets me real most anyone will be charging at night time which means fossil fuels well be needed to provide the charge.
 

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Lol, you'll never get the answer your looking for. Because lets me real most anyone will be charging at night time which means fossil fuels well be needed to provide the charge.

Or storage from solar production during the day. Which leads to more batteries which also isn't exactly "green" either. Then there is next gen fission. EV tech is imperfect and a baby step but might force people to take a look at our crap infrastructure. Possibly motivate or force more innovation.

Still keeping my e85 (uses more oil to make then saves) supercharged non-catted Cobra till I get tired of it. EV or hybrid is the future though.
 
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Or storage from solar production during the day. Which leads to more batteries which also isn't exactly "green" either. Then there is next gen fission. EV tech is imperfect and a baby step but might force people to take a look at our crap infrastructure. Possibly motivate or force more innovation.

Still keeping my e85 (uses more oil to make then saves) supercharged non-catted Cobra till I get tired of it. EV or hybrid is the future though.
Maybe the future but i dont see it completely being taken over in our life time unless you are 10yr old now
 

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Maybe the future but i dont see it completely being taken over in our life time unless you are 10yr old now

Not going to argue that. Never see it truly taken over, full stop. I mean are we going to buy back every classic car out there then too?
 

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Geez guys I already knew the answer! Libs are too stupid to realize it though.

We’ve had efficient EVs for a long time.


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Geez guys I already knew the answer! Luba are too stupid to realize it though.

We’ve had efficient EVs for a long time.


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My bad don't know who stands where and its pretty gray area anyway my self included. Just had an attack of "****ing this again?!".

I don't know if it's the update and me not navigating the site correctly now, holiday weekend or what. Just keep seeing the same stuff. Guess I need to step up and start some threads on stuff from things I read not on here already.
 

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Not going to argue that. Never see it truly taken over, full stop. I mean are we going to buy back every classic car out there then too?
Lol unfortunately most of us normal folk cant afford too.
 

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The lady was eating ice cream on her couch, ended up dead in her front yard.

The owner of the car let his friend drive. The owner was the only one in the car that died, impaled in the chest by a 2x6 truss

Attached photos are the street and the stop sign.

There's a time and a place, and this street is not the place. I'd be shocked if alcohol wasn't involvedView attachment 1719318View attachment 1719319

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Man that makes it all the more egregious. I thought this was going to be another case where it was a long straight road with a house right at the intersection just feet from the street. That's a relatively short road in a subdivision, and that house is pretty far from the road, with a fence in between. They had to be really hauling ass in a residential area- and careened a long way off the road. I haven't seen too many accidents manage to carry that far off the road (without a ramp) and still do a lot of damage.
 

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My cousins and I had little five horse minibikes that did 20mph and we managed to do stupid shit with them. It's not the horsepower.
I disagree. It takes more skill and common sense to handle the high horsepower vehicles we see today, like the Tesla Plaid. Would you give a 600+ horsepower car to your 16 year old son? There's a reason for that.

Very sad that an innocent woman ended her life in such a horrific and tragic manner. So the owner of the Tesla made the tragic mistake of letting (likely) a person take the wheel of his car who likely didn't know the area and maybe didn't realize how fast the Plain can accelerate.
 

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