{"id":329268,"date":"2025-12-22T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:25:08","slug":"two-teenagers-killed-after-tesla-crashes-into-tree-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329268\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers killed after Tesla crashes into tree | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers have died and a third is fighting for his life after a Tesla crashed into a tree in Surrey, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, which took place in Hurst Green near Oxted shortly before 10pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The other died in hospital, Surrey <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/police-6320\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police<\/a> said, while the third is fighting for his life in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynews-holland-road-popes-lane_7116986.jpg\"   alt=\"Holland Road near to the junction with Popes Lane. Pic: Google Street View\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Holland Road near to the junction with Popes Lane. Pic: Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>All three men were in their late teens. Their families have been informed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were alerted to reports of a serious crash involving a white <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/tesla-6868\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tesla<\/a> and a tree in Holland Road, near to the junction with Popes Lane.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old man from Oxted has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police is appealing for members of the public who might have witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking anyone who may have witnessed this collision to get in touch,&#8221; the force said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also seeking CCTV, dashcam, or helmet cam footage that may have captured all or part of this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have died and a third is fighting for his life after a Tesla crashed into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-329268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}