Tesla swerves into oncoming traffic causing dump truck to crash into senior living facility

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Newly released video shows the moment a Tesla drove into opposing traffic in Scottsdale, triggering a chain-reaction crash that sent a dump truck into another car and then a wall. FOX 10's Kenzie Beach has the details.

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00:00First at 5, wild new dash cam video here showing a Tesla crashing head-on into a dump truck,

00:05causing it to slam into a brick wall. Yeah, this was something else. A crash shut down

00:11Cactus for hours yesterday, and a senior living home had to be evacuated when the truck crashed

00:15right into their backyard. Kenzie Beach joins us now from the crash site with the latest. They've

00:21been pretty good about letting you on that area. Yeah, we've been able to kind of get full access

00:28to this today, even when before they put up this temporary fencing. I mean, it's a massive gaping

00:34hole that's left here, but I'm kind of standing exactly where that massive dump truck finally came

00:39to a stop and just take a look at how deep the tire marks are into this gravel and all of the

00:45destruction that it left behind in this backyard. As you're about to see that video again, it's a

00:50miracle that nobody died. I thought it was a bomb, literally, because it was that loud. I mean, I

00:57heard accidents happens here in the back, but not that loud. Annette Giorgio saw the aftermath as the

01:03backyard of the senior living home she manages was destroyed Tuesday, but for the very first time,

01:09she watched how it all unfolded. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Annette says the driver of the dump

01:14truck was shaking as he stepped outside with smoke filling the air, but had one thing on his mind.

01:21I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but it was not my fault. This is the only thing I have to prove. The truck driver

01:25sharing this dash cam footage with Fox 10. It shows the moments the white Tesla crossed over

01:30into oncoming traffic, dodging one car and smashing right into the massive truck head-on.

01:36The truck, trying to avoid oncoming traffic, sideswiped one car before landing in this backyard.

01:42And then after that was boom, boom, boom after. The trail of brakes leads right into where this

01:47cinder block wall once stood, leaving a gaping hole as it was towed away. Now a temporary fence

01:53stands in its place. The driver said he put, he grabbed all the brakes that he could grab.

01:58Knowing the massive truck was filled with over 20 tons of rocks, he used every emergency brake

02:04available. I was afraid that's going to get on fire, so immediately I sent my employee to go and get

02:11the patient that was in this room away and move all the patients in front of the house. The home filled

02:16with 10 patients was evacuated as the crash came within feet of some patients' bedrooms. Multiple cars

02:22totaled. The wall, waterline, and backyard destroyed. Both drivers were taken to the hospital

02:28with only minor injuries. All these things can be fixable. Lives are the most important thing,

02:33and that's what we're thankful for.

02:37Now witnesses believe that that white Tesla in the video was on autopilot at the time of the crash.

02:43Now we've asked the Scottsdale Police Department about that. They can't confirm it at this time

02:47as it's still an ongoing investigation. They do tell us that impairment has been ruled out for the

02:53driver of the Tesla, and that driver also received two minor traffic violations. But what's left here,

02:59a ton of destruction. But the manager here just pointing out it really is a miracle that both

03:05drivers and everyone in oncoming traffic was not harmed as well. Reporting live in Scottsdale,

03:11Kenzie Beach, Fox 10 News. Yeah, Kenzie, thank you.

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