{"id":1277,"date":"2018-05-16T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2018-05-16T20:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:43:22","slug":"tesla-bursts-into-flames-after-fatal-crash-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-bursts-into-flames-after-fatal-crash-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Bursts into Flames after Fatal Crash in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lightmatter_carbq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lightmatter_carbq-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lightmatter_carbq-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lightmatter_carbq.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Swiss firefighters have indicated the impact of a fatal crash involving a Tesla car may have set off a fire in the vehicle&#8217;s battery, causing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\">vehicle<\/a> to go up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-year-German driver died when on Thursday his car hit a barrier on a motorway in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, turned over and burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>The car burst into flames and was attended to by Bellinzona firefighters, who say the blaze may have been caused by the Tesla battery.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is one of several accidents to affect Tesla vehicles in recent days, and one of several crashes in recent years involving fires.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-swiss-tesla-crash\/tesla-crash-may-have-triggered-battery-fire-swiss-firefighters-idUSKCN1IF2WN\">The Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss firefighters have indicated the impact of a fatal crash involving a Tesla car may have set off a fire in the vehicle&#8217;s battery, causing the vehicle to go up in flames. A 48-year-German driver died when on Thursday his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-bursts-into-flames-after-fatal-crash-in-switzerland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[34,58,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}