A Wisconsin family is suing Tesla over a fiery crash that left five people dead in suburban Madison last year.
The suit filed last week in Dane County Circuit Court alleges Tesla knew about design flaws that turned a survivable crash into a fatal tragedy.
“Tesla’s design choices created a highly foreseeable risk: that occupants who survived a crash would remain trapped inside a burning vehicle,” the suit alleges. “Jeffrey Bauer and Michelle Bauer did not die from the crash; they died because Defendant Tesla’s unreasonably dangerous design choices created the conditions for a fire to ignite and spread rapidly and left them with no practical means of…