Scene footage of a crash in Florida that killed two people (WTVJ/YouTube).
A Tesla driver out on pretrial release in a firearm case in Florida may have been fleeing deputies when he caused a high-speed chain-reaction crash that left two women dead and injured two others — one critically.
The crash happened at 4 p.m. on Sunday near Northwest 27th Avenue and Northwest Sixth Street near Fort Lauderdale, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release .
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Authorities said Gavin Dorvil, 19, was behind the wheel of a 2023 Tesla Model 3 speeding when he T-boned a Dodge Durango in a chain-reaction crash that caused the Durango to strike a Chevrolet Trax, which flipped. The Durango and Trax crashed through a cemetery fence, officials said.
Godwin Ogiste, a food truck owner who witnessed the aftermath, described the chaos, local NBC affiliate WTVJ reported.
“It was so loud, like a bomb or grenade was let off,” he told the station, adding that he saw “all the cars piled up on top of each other,” including “one car flipped over in the street.”