Tesla Can’t Duck Defect Trial Over Double-Fatal 2016 Wreck
- Lawsuit blames ‘uncommanded acceleration’ for Indiana crash
- Driver’s blood-alcohol level was twice legal limit, Tesla says
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Tesla Inc. will probably have to go to trial to fight claims that a sudden acceleration defect in a Model S caused a fiery crash in Indiana that killed the driver and a passenger in 2016.
A California state judge said in a tentative ruling he was unconvinced that a review of the car’s data recorder shows the crash was all the driver’s fault.