Excessive speed blamed in Murrieta Tesla crash that killed 3:PD

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The flaming wreckage happened Saturday night in the parking lot of Alta Murrieta Elementary School on Whitewood Road.

July 10, 2023 7:08 p.m. PDT | Updated July 10, 2023 7:39 PM PDT

MURRIETA, Calif. — A fiery Tesla crash over the weekend that killed three people and seriously injured another in the Alta Murrieta Elementary School parking lot was likely the result of speeding and driving. loss of control, police said Monday.

The single vehicle wreckage occurred just after 11 p.m. Saturday at 39475 Whitewood Road, according to the Murrieta Police Department.

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A preliminary investigation suggests “excessive speed was a factor in the collision,” the department said.

When officers arrived at the scene, the white Tesla sedan was engulfed in flames. One occupant was found outside the vehicle seriously injured and three people inside the car were pronounced dead at the scene, the agency said.

Several bystanders stopped at the scene of the crash and found the surviving victim in the parking lot and provided life-saving assistance, the police department said. A survivor update was not available on Monday.

The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office has not definitively identified the deceased.

Although toxicology results are still pending, the Murrieta Police Department said the scope of the accident investigation was no longer focused “on criminal culpability.”

The driver is among the dead, according to police.

Anyone with information about the incident has been asked to contact Traffic Investigator Kurt Stickelman at 951-461-6306 or [email protected] or Traffic Bureau Sgt. Steve Whiddon at 951-461-6323 or [email protected].

Saturday’s deadly wreckage follows a June crackdown by Murrieta Police along Whitewood Road. The police department launched the law enforcement operation following a series of fatal and serious crashes in the busy Murrieta Corridor. Read more: After 2 fatal crashes, injuries, Murrieta’s Whitewood road under surveillance

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