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4 Indians, including their brothers, were killed when Tesla crashed into a divider in Canada | World News
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4 Indians, including their brothers, were killed when Tesla crashed into a divider in Canada | World News

A passerby recalled the horrific Tesla car crash in Canada that killed four Indians, saying the victims broke the window glass and tried to get out of the burning vehicle. “I did everything I could do,” he told a Canadian media outlet.

File photo of the Tesla vehicle involved in the accident. (REUTERS)
File photo of the Tesla vehicle involved in the accident. (REUTERS)

Rick Harper, who was driving to the Canada Post plant in Mississauga via Lake Shore Boulevard on Thursday morning when the crash occurred, told CP24 he saw large flames when he first noticed the car.

The Tesla, with five people inside, had just regained control and crashed into a guardrail and crashed into a concrete pillar. Shortly after, the vehicle caught fire as a result of the battery explosion.

Equipped with a fire extinguisher, Harper decided to pull over and help. “When I got out of my truck, I noticed they were 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 from the truck I had,” Harper told CTV News. in Toronto.

He and another person who stopped to help broke the glass of the back door so one of the survivors could get out.

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

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Harper said he was unaware that there were any other passengers in the vehicle besides the driver. He also remembered the dark and smoky interior of the Tesla and the “little voice” he heard softly screaming.

“It was very muffled, very weak. This is what bothers me; I heard a noise and later found out there were other people in the car and no one knew until the fire was put out,” the man told the publication.

Four Indians died in Tesla crash in Canada.

Four Indo-Canadians have been identified as the victims of a fatal crash in Toronto just after midnight on Thursday.

The victims were traveling in a Tesla EV when they lost control, crashed into guardrails and then a concrete pillar, and were then “engulfed in flames,” according to a statement released by Toronto Police on Friday.

While four people died in the fire, the fifth passenger, an unidentified woman, was rescued by passersby and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.