{"id":341755,"date":"2026-09-09T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341755\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:51:19","slug":"one-killed-after-out-of-control-tesla-smashes-into-nyc-scaffolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341755\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed after out-of-control Tesla smashes into NYC scaffolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old woman was killed when a Tesla she was in crashed into scaffolding in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday, with the injured female driver taken into police custody at a nearby hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Tesla hit a mailbox at around 2:43 a.m. before striking scaffolding outside 315 Madison Ave. just before 3 a.m., traveling several blocks east along East 42nd Street before coming to a stop at the intersection of Second Avenue, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40726457\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/one-person-dead-following-fatal-140282839.jpg\" alt=\"A black Tesla with significant front-end damage, marked off by yellow police tape, at the scene of a fatal crash in Midtown Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-40726457\"\/>The scene of the fatal Tesla crash where a 27-year-old passenger was killed on Wednesday in Midtown Manhattan.. PIX11<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40726455\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/315-madison-ave-3-m-140281980.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of a street at night, with scaffolding on the left and a bus and cars on the right.\" class=\"wp-image-40726455\"\/>The heavily damaged Tesla sits at the intersection of East 42nd Street and Second Avenue in Midtown Manhattan where it first hit a mailbox at around 2:43 a.m. before striking scaffolding. WABC<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from the scene show the heavily damaged Tesla at the intersection Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Both occupants were rushed to a nearby hospital where the 27-year-old passenger was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, also a 27-year-old woman, is in stable condition and in police custody, but has not been charged, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>No identities have been released pending the notification of families.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not said what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle and the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old woman was killed when a Tesla she was in crashed into scaffolding in Midtown Manhattan early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[254,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,103,27699,58],"class_list":["post-341755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-car-crashes","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-tesla","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}