Terrifying moment speeding Tesla screeches past house seconds before fiery double tragedy
Several videos showed a Tesla speeding down a suburban road in Illinois before slamming head-on into a house. The car burst into flames, killing the two occupants and causing damage to the home.
Terrifying footage showed a Tesla speeding down a suburban street in Illinois before crashing into a home and bursting into flames.
Two unidentified people inside the Tesla died in the horrific wreck on Sunday on the outskirts of Chicago, FOX 32 reported.
A neighbor’s home surveillance caught a glimpse of the car tearing through Janes Avenue in the town of Woodridge.
The neighbor, John Klecyngier, heard the car go by and soon after, heard a deafening collision and screaming.
A second video captured the exact moment the car struck the home and exploded into a giant fireball.
Yet another video, captured via cellphone by another neighbor, showed the burning car lodged into the side of the house on the 2400 block of Kildeer Street. The flames were burning higher than the roof of the home.
Several police cars and a firetruck responded and surrounded the destroyed vehicle.
The Lisle-Woodridge Fire Department responded to the fire and neighbors told ABC 7 that it took them several hours to completely put it out.
The Tesla’s headlights are seen shining don road in home surveillance video from a neighbor’s home
Another camera angle from a home directly across the street captured the moment the car careened into the house
Pictured: Huge flames were seen erupting from the car as police and firefighters arrived on the scene
Police said the crash happened at around 8:30pm but haven’t released any information about the deceased occupants.
Witnesses said the Tesla struck several trees and a median before slamming into the home. No one in the home at the time of the crash was injured, though the homeowner said his wife went to the hospital out of an abundance of caution.
It’s not clear which model Tesla was involved in the crash, but it wasn’t a Cybertruck.
Klecyngier, who provided his video of the incident to multiple news outlets, said he was in his shed when he heard the car whizz by and crash.
‘As soon as I heard a loud bang, I saw the vehicle go right into the house. As soon as I saw that, I saw the flames, I heard the screaming. I pulled the video off my cameras and sure enough, it’s the car going at an extremely high rate of speed,’ he said.
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if it did go airborne, knowing the fact there was a pretty good gap between one bang and another,’ he added.
Pictures of the aftermath show the garage area and lawn significantly damaged.
A photo taken by the fire department showed the car still burning adjacent to the house.
Firefighters are pictured putting out the last of the flames, a process neighbors said took several hours
Once the fire was out, firefighters put a large tarp over the wreckage to smother any remaining embers
Pictured: The remnants of the vehicle that smashed into the home
Jerry, a neighbor who lives across the street from the crash site, said the siding of the home melted.
‘I feel horrible for the people that live there,’ Jerry said. ‘The fire reached probably about eight feet high…and it burned for quite a while.’
Another neighbor, who identified himself only as Jason, said the crash was very loud.
‘I was just sitting in the house with my wife and my son, getting ready to put my son to bed. We heard a couple loud booms,’ Jason told WGN 9. ‘We first thought it was someone just blowing fireworks in th_e neighborhood, then we heard another boom probably about 20 seconds later.’
Klecyngier said he’s been concerned lately about speeding in the neighborhood.
‘That’s why I don’t allow my kids to start walking down this pathway…It could have been me, could have been somebody else or a child. God forbid,’ he said.
Police said they are still investigating what caused the crash, though Woodridge Police Chief Tom Stefanson said excessive speed was likely a factor.
As of Sunday, the DuPage County Coroner was working to ‘properly identify the deceased and notify the next of kin.’
DailyMail.com contacted the fire department and the Woodridge Police Department for additional comment.
The crash comes months after three teens died in a Tesla Cybertruck that rammed into a tree in Piedmont, California
The driver of the Cybertruck at the time of the crash, Soren Dixon, 19, was revealed to have had a blood alcohol concentration more than twice the legal limit for drivers. He also had cocaine in his system. He, along with two others, died in the wreck
Pictured: Krysta Tsukahara, 19, and Jack Nelson, 19, were the other two victims who died. Both were friends of Dixon and survivor Jordan Miller during their time at Piedmont High School. They were pronounced dead at the scene
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Jordan Miller (pictured) was the sole survivor and was pulled out of the burning Cybertruck in time
The crash comes months after three teens died in a Tesla Cybertruck that rammed into a tree in Piedmont, California.
The crash last November killed Soren Dixon, Jack Nelson, and Krysta Tsukahara, all 19-year-olds who graduated from Piedmont High School in 2023.
Jordan Miller, 20, was pulled alive from the SUV and seriously burned. Ultimately, he survived after several surgeries and a long hospital stay.
Autopsy and toxicology results revealed Dixon, who had been driving the vehicle, had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.195 percent – more than twice the legal limit of .08 percent.
Dixon’s blood samples also tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine.
California Highway Patrol, which led the crash investigation, ruled in its report that Dixon caused the crash.
‘Officers determined that a combination of driving under the influence of drugs and unsafe speed were the causes of this crash,’ according to the report.
The report found that Dixon’s impairment and his decision to drive at a high rate of speed made it impossible to round a bend in the road.
