The electrical car, owned by British TV director Michael Morris, burst into flames on a Los Angeles high street.
The video was posted to Twitter earlier in the week by his wife Mary McCormack, she said: “No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd.
“Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him.”
@Tesla This is what happened to my husband and his car today. No accident,out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren’t in the car with him pic.twitter.com/O4tPs5ftVo
— Mary McCormack (@marycmccormack) June 16, 2018
ABC News has reported that Tesla electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire than fuel-powered cars.
Fire crews were called and extinguished the fire.
In another tweet McCormack said that the car “wasn’t a Tesla with auto pilot or whatever. It was a normal Tesla.”
I meant it wasn’t a Tesla with auto pilot or whatever. It was a normal Tesla.
— Mary McCormack (@marycmccormack) June 17, 2018
McCormack and Morris, a former director of London’s Old Vic theatre and of the recent TV series 13 Reasons Why, have been married since 2003.