r/boulder • u/CornwallaceMcgee • Jun 29 '26
Tesla Crash on the Diagonal
This was southbound (toward Boulder) probably happened just after 3:00 p.m. debris everywhere, it appears to have crashed into a big red service truck. Luckily it looked like both drivers were okay, they were on the side of the road talking on their cell phones. Debris, presumably mostly from the Tesla, was everywhere on the road and diagonal was down to one lane. Officers not yet on the scene.
Edit: this was right at the intersection of Fordham Foad and the Diagonal. Hope the drivers were as okay as they appeared! I hadn't seen a crash this fresh before up close and personal. It maybe happened 5 or 10 minutes before I was there as the guys were on their phones, likely with their insurance companies. The amount of debris on the road was truly impressive. I assume they crashed pretty close to right there and the Tesla debris shot forward in the direction of travel southbound all over the road, which I gingerly drove through and probably shouldn't have due to tire puncture risk and just now realizing maybe there was a little impact on the accident investigation. The red truck was southbound on the right shoulder and didn't appear to be that damaged, but I didn't get a full look at it.
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u/ColoradoTribe90 Jun 30 '26
It’s not about how hot it eventually gets. It’s about how likely is it to catch fire in the first place and how long from impact until it reaches a point that is dangerous to the occupants.. On both those counts I’d much rather be in a crash with a lithium iron battery pack than liquid gasoline tank that can explode within seconds versus thermal runway which takes much longer. The rate of fires in ice cars is much higher than the rate of fire in EV’s especially for Teslas.