Recently, a Tesla electric car suspected of improper operation lost control on the streets of Dayu County, Jiangxi Province, China. After losing speed, the vehicle rolled in the air and collided with multiple cars, resulting in severe damage to the entire car. However, the two occupants inside the car escaped serious injuries. Many Chinese netizens immediately compared this incident with the previous collision and fire involving a Huawei Wenjie electric car, which resulted in three deaths, sarcastically remarking, “Now you know who is ‘far ahead,’ right?”
According to videos circulating online, in Nan’an Avenue, Dayu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, an out-of-control Tesla Model Y rolled over more than ten times, causing severe damage to multiple cars and injuring several pedestrians. The female driver and male passenger both sustained varying degrees of injuries.
The female driver appeared to have her foot trapped and was in visible pain, while the male passenger remained calm, even using his phone to send messages and make calls as onlookers gathered around. Both individuals had blood on their faces and hands.
According to reports from Urban Express Orange Interactive, the accident occurred around 2:30 PM on May 1st at the intersection of Nan’an Avenue and Beiwai Road, approximately 60 meters southeast of Dayu County, adjacent to a roundabout. There are two diversion lanes to the east of the roundabout, forming a triangular area where a small parking lot with over 20 private cars and a box truck is located.
Footage from an on-board camera showed the Tesla flipping through the air from a distance before rolling over ten times and colliding with vehicles parked in the lot.
The out-of-control Tesla, a Model Y that had not been registered, sustained severe damage, with the front bumper missing, the roof almost completely collapsed, the right rear tire detached from the hub, the hood severely deformed and protruding, the front windshield completely shattered, and the front airbags and side curtains of all four windows deployed.
The accident resulted in multiple injuries to pedestrians, with at least two injured individuals seen lying on the ground in the video. Several cars involved in the collision were also severely damaged, with deformed hoods, completely wrecked front ends, and severely deformed rear ends. The scene was scattered with car bumpers and parts, with tires rolling on the ground.
On the evening of May 1st, the Dayu County Public Security Bureau reported that the accident resulted in “one person seriously injured, three lightly injured, and nine vehicles damaged. The cause of the accident was improper emergency pedestrian avoidance.”
This Tesla electric car accident briefly became a hot topic on the mainland Chinese internet. However, many netizens compared this incident with the tragic accident in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, where a Huawei Wenjie M7 electric car rear-ended a water truck and caught fire, resulting in the death of all three occupants, questioning Huawei Wenjie’s safety standards.
Some netizens pointed out that despite the Tesla flipping several times in the air, the occupants’ lives were spared, the car did not catch fire, and the airbags deployed, sarcastically implying that this spoke volumes about the situation.
Others sarcastically commented, “Now you know who is ‘far ahead,’ right?”
On April 26th, an electric car jointly developed by Huawei and Seres, the “Wenjie M7 Plus,” rear-ended a vehicle on a highway in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, and caught fire, resulting in the death of three occupants. Videos posted by relatives of the victims and other drivers passing by, as well as questioning articles, were frequently deleted, leading to suspicion.
Footage showed that the automatic emergency braking system (AEB) was not activated before the rear-end collision, and the doors did not unlock automatically after the accident, preventing rescue personnel from opening them, which raised widespread concerns.
An opinion article published by the 21st Century Business Herald, a subsidiary of the Guangdong Southern Newspaper Group, questioned whether Huawei Wenjie’s AEB (Active Emergency Braking) function was exaggerated in its promotion and directly pointed out that the cost emphasized by Huawei’s promotion of being “far ahead” should not be lives. The article was later taken down.
The article mentioned that under the influence of statements like “Far Ahead” by Yu Chengdong, many car companies were forced to follow suit and became involved in excessive promotion. Huawei Wenjie once again sounded the alarm for the industry that irresponsible excessive promotion not only harms users but also rebounds on itself.