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At about 7 o'clock today, a fire broke out after Tesla collided in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

According to several media reports, the accident occurred under the Hangzhou Hui highway viaduct at the intersection of Yunxi Road, Tianmu Shanxi Road, west of Hangzhou. A black Tesla car started in the left-turning waiting area and collided with a white Toyota SUV straight car with relatively fast speed. The accident caused Tesla to be overturned. At the same time, under the huge impact, Tesla chassis immediately burst into open fire. After a while, Tesla's whole car began to burn violently, and the fire was fierce, and although Toyota SUV did not catch fire, the collision marks were also terrible, almost the whole front of the car was completely deformed.

According to the driving recorder provided by netizens at the scene of the incident, at the time of the incident, the Tesla car started from east to west through the intersection. At the beginning, the ‍ white Toyota SUV passed the intersection from south to north and collided with Tesla. After the crash, Toyota SUV turned around directly, and the front of the car was badly damaged. And Tesla was hit "upright" and a lot of smoke jumped out of the flames under the car.

Judging from the scene of the accident, the vehicle in the accident was seriously damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the accident. As the vehicle fire was not serious at that time, the people in the two cars had enough time to escape by themselves before the fire and traffic police arrived. The Toyota owner had a slight bruise on his knee, and the owner of Tesla was fine.

After the accident, the traffic police and the fire department rushed to the scene for rescue. According to eyewitnesses, the fire engine arrived at the scene of the accident quickly, and it is estimated that the accident occurred in less than five minutes. At present, the fire has been put out, the accident vehicle has been towed away from the scene, and traffic at the scene has been restored.

It is understood that the traffic lights at the intersection of the accident are controlled separately for going straight and turning. At present, it is not clear about the traffic lights of both sides at the time of the accident. Netizens commented that the accident was caused by one side grabbing the green light or the other side running the yellow light. Another owner of a new energy vehicle pointed out: "the Tesla car caught fire at the bottom of the car. It is suspected that the battery pack under the car caught fire after being hit."

In response to the above accident, the vehicle involved has not yet made an official response, and the specific cause of the accident has yet to be investigated.

It should be noted that a number of fire accidents have occurred in Tesla before. On July 8, a fire broke out at Tesla's sheet spray center in Suzhou, where the site was covered with black smoke, leaving only the frame of several vehicles burnt out. In response to this matter, Tesla responded: "Suzhou sheet spray center is indeed a fire, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation."

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