Miami Jury: Tesla Only 1% To Blame Young Driver's Crash
A Florida jury found Tesla was only 1% negligent in a violent crash that killed two teenagers by disabling the speed limiter on an electric car. Tuesday's ruling blamed the driver, Barrett Riley, and 9% went to his father, James Riley, who filed a lawsuit against Tesla. Michael Brooks, acting executive director of the Center for Automotive Safety, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, said this is the first known case involving a Tesla crash that has been brought forward. judge. Barrett Riley and her friend Edgar Monserrat Martinez were about to graduate from a South Florida private school when they died in a crash in May 2018 near Fort Lauderdale Beach. One rear passenger was ejected and survived. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that he was driving at 116 mph (186 km/h) in the 30 mph ( 8 km/h) zone, and the cause was most likely possible cause of the crash "is the loss of control of the driver due to excess...