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4 Indians, including siblings, killed as Tesla crashes into bulkhead in Canada | World News
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4 Indians, including siblings, killed as Tesla crashes into bulkhead in Canada | World News

A passerby recalled the horrific Tesla car crash that killed four Indians in Canada and said the victims were trying to break the window and get out of the burning vehicle. “I did everything I could,” he told Canadian media.

File photo of a Tesla vehicle involved in an accident. (Reuters)
File photo of a Tesla vehicle involved in an accident. (Reuters)

Rick Harper, who was driving on Lake Shore Boulevard Thursday morning to a Canada Post plant in Mississauga when the accident occurred, told CP24 he saw huge flames when he noticed the car for the first time.

The Tesla, which had five occupants inside, just took control, crashed into a guardrail and hit a concrete pillar. Shortly afterwards, the vehicle caught fire following a battery explosion.

Equipped with a fire extinguisher, Harper decided to stop and help. “As I got out of my truck I noticed them yelling that they needed a bar or something to break the window because they were hitting the window with their hands, I grabbed the bar of the truck that I had,” Harper told CTV News. Toronto.

He and another person, who also stopped to help, broke the glass of the back door to allow one of the survivors to get out.

Harper said he gave the fire extinguisher to others who were trying to put out the flames.

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Harper said he did not know there were any other occupants in the vehicle besides the driver. He also remembered the dark, smoky interior of the Tesla and the “little voice” he heard, uttering faint cries.

“It was so muffled, so weak. That’s what haunts me: hearing a voice and later finding out there were other people in the car, and no one knew until the fire was put out,” the man said to the newspaper.

Four Indians killed in Tesla accident in Canada.

Four Indo-Canadians have been identified as victims of a fatal crash that occurred shortly after midnight Thursday in Toronto.

According to a statement released Friday by Toronto police, the victims were traveling in a Tesla electric vehicle when it lost control and struck the guardrail and then a concrete pillar and, subsequently, “was ravaged by flames.

The fire claimed the lives of four people while a fifth passenger, an unidentified woman, was rescued by passers-by and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.