{"id":739970,"date":"2026-07-03T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:08:15","slug":"tesla-driver-faces-manslaughter-charges-over-texas-crash-that-killed-a-woman-inside-her-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739970\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">On the video, I saw BUTLER\u2019s Tesla continue to increase in speed, and saw the amount of pressure being applied to the accelerator pedal also increase in speed. In about six (6) seconds, the accelerator pedal was pressed all the way down to 100%, \u201cpedal to the metal,\u201d and the vehicle reached a speed of 73 miles per hour, more than double the speed limit on that residential street. The Tesla continued straight towards the middle of the cul-de-sac, struck the curb of the complainant\u2019s driveway, and went airborne towards the front of the home\u2026 I noted that the brake pedal was never pressed in the final minute before the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the video, I saw BUTLER\u2019s Tesla continue to increase in speed, and saw the amount of pressure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,6144,3,1343,1019,6145],"class_list":["post-739970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-electric-cars","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-tesla","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}