Tesla #6 crash disturbs the sound of silence

[Capper]

Just hours after taking delivery of his brand new electric supercar, the unnamed owner of Tesla #6 has found himself back at the Menlo Park dealership awaiting news from his insurance company. Dane Golden reports that his friend Alex Volkov stumbled upon the first crash of a privately owned Tesla. At 6PM on Friday afternoon, the Jet Black beauty found itself unceremoniously wedged in front of an early ‘90s Camry and beneath a 2000s C-Class at the corner of Geary Boulevard and Gough Street in San Francisco.



Volkov, who came upon the carbon fiber carbon-friendly wreck ten minutes after it occurred, told Wired.com that the crash scene was sedate with only one police car blocking traffic. “No action, no drama -- everyone was very mellow,” Volkov said. “Nobody was blaming anybody. The people involved in the crash were just giving their testimony for police officers.” Volkov and bloggers speculated that the car was being driven by a Tesla engineer since it had no license plates. However, Darryl Siry, Tesla’s Vice President of Marketing, told Wired.com that #6 (shown here in happier times) had been delivered to a customer’s home shortly before the accident. “It was a Tesla customer who got into that accident. We're aware of it because we service our vehicles,” he said, though he declined to name the customer (who he did identify as male) so as to protect his identity.

Comment from Tesla and an Eyewitness on First Tesla Crash | Autopia from Wired.com

Ouch

[screwballl]

guess that goes to show it can handle an everyday wreck pretty well.... although I would be worried about a higher speed rear end collision coming into the windshield...

[Zambini]

ouch.

His insurance company should just get him a new one. lol

[screwballl]

wonder if he was on the way to the DMV to get new license plates or if he even had insurance since it was a new car and they say it was being driven by the owner, not an engineer....

[Badluck Inc]

That has to suck so bad.