A woman was killed after a Tesla operating with an automated driving assistance system crashed into her Texas home. The vehicle left the road and ploughed through the property.
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The fatal crash occurred in Houston. Driver Michael Butler was travelling in a Tesla Model 3 when the vehicle left its lane, veered off the roadway and slammed into a brick house.
Butler was operating the car "with an automated driving assistance system" at the time of the collision.
"Butler's Tesla entered through the brick residence, at a high rate of speed, and struck M. Avila who was inside the residence," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
76-year-old Martha Avila was inside the home when the vehicle crashed through the front of the property. She was airlifted to hospital but later died from her injuries.
