The future door handle of the Tesla Model S is being mistaken for a traffic accident by Dr. Omar Awan, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist in Davie, Florida. According to the accident report, Awan was traveling on a Florida parkway when she lost control of the leased Tesla and hit a palm tree. This family incorrectly sentenced Broward County State Court to death door handles.
According to the lawsuit, the police officer could not open the door because the policeman flipped the handle back to watch the car filled with smoke and flames. The lawsuit also claims that the fire originated from the car battery. The lawsuit marks the cause of death as inhalation of smoke and states that Awan did not have internal injuries or broken bones during the crash.
The handle has an obscure history back to the Consumer Reports article, and door handle breakage was the biggest complaint about the car. According to a Wired article in 2018, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk argued that "there is no unanimity among executives that the idea of complex door handles is insane," but top safety advocates have set a record of attacking door handles for safety reasons. First responder.
Aside from the door handles, this and other accidents teach the first responders about special situations involving lithium ion battery fires. In this case, the police were at the scene for the first time and used a fire department-approved fire extinguisher that was useless for lithium-ion battery fires. This battery requires a lot of water, because a chain reaction called thermal runaway occurs. The firefighters eventually appeared to work by spraying the flames with water, but the wrecked car ruled twice more after towing.
It's not the first lawsuit that Tesla raised a flaw with a lithium-ion battery fire after a high-impact accident. Another lawsuit was filed earlier this month in San Jose, California. As usual with court proceedings, Tesla did not answer questions about the lawsuit.
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