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Most people that tend to have accidents are minor. Then there are those accidents that leave you wondering, how in the world did the happen? For this is one of those as we really don't know what happened because the picture was received without a story or end results of the drivers/passengers. So what do you think happened??



Source: Wired  
Life....it's not about how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep pushing forward, how much you can take and keep pushing forward! - Rocky Balboa

That's anybody's guess.  I did take a look at the link though and there was some suggestion about the Tesla being nailed at a red light. What's amazing is so many minivans and cross dressers have such blah, nondescript styling on them you really can't tell what hit the Telsla.  The link suggested a Touareg was one of the vehicles involved in it.  
Austin Cooper

Austin.Cooper:
That's anybody's guess.  I did take a look at the link though and there was some suggestion about the Tesla being nailed at a red light. What's amazing is so many minivans and cross dressers have such blah, nondescript styling on them you really can't tell what hit the Telsla.  The link suggested a Touareg was one of the vehicles involved in it.

Huh...interesting....I don't remember reading about a red light....in fact you don't even see a stop sign, yet alone a light post, in the picture.  
Life....it's not about how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep pushing forward, how much you can take and keep pushing forward! - Rocky Balboa

Here's the latest update in the link:

   "This was a customer car but the customer was not driving or in the car at the time. The driver stopped at a red light behind a truck and was hit from behind by a VW Touareg driving at 80km/hour at the time of impact. The Roadster driver walked away with minor bruises.

As reader dougdirac notes in the comments below, there’s a thread at Tesla Motors Club and a couple of pictures on Flickr. According to the information on those two sites, the silver car — a Toyota Avensis — allegedly hit the Touareg, forcing it into the Roadster.

The photo was posted on Flickr  by skagman.

UPDATE: 11 p.m. Eastern time: Got an email from Doug at Tesla Motors Club who says that’s definitely a Toyota Prius, not an Avensis, in the pic. (Commenters made the same observation.) The latest word is the Prius allegedly hit the Roadster, pushing it under the Touareg, and Doug notes there a piece of the Roadster jammed under the rear bumper of the Touareg.

We’ll keep you posted if we hear anything more."

I guess that is a Prius   If I could have seen more of it in the picture I would have known for sure.  I actually thought it was some odd cross dresser by the looks of the front end of it.

I'm really not surprised the Tesla driver walked away though. In fact I was thinking he or she did, just because lately I've been seeing so many gruesome wrecks and hearing how the driver managed to walk away. The last real mean wreck I remember where the driver didn't walk away was this one   SUICIDE CHICK Ms Femme Fatale took her Stang and rear ended a Civic sitting at a stoplight @ 90 MPH with it    
Austin Cooper

Austin.Cooper:
Here's the latest update in the link:

   "This was a customer car but the customer was not driving or in the car at the time. The driver stopped at a red light behind a truck and was hit from behind by a VW Touareg driving at 80km/hour at the time of impact. The Roadster driver walked away with minor bruises.

As reader dougdirac notes in the comments below, there’s a thread at Tesla Motors Club and a couple of pictures on Flickr. According to the information on those two sites, the silver car — a Toyota Avensis — allegedly hit the Touareg, forcing it into the Roadster.

The photo was posted on Flickr  by skagman.

UPDATE: 11 p.m. Eastern time: Got an email from Doug at Tesla Motors Club who says that’s definitely a Toyota Prius, not an Avensis, in the pic. (Commenters made the same observation.) The latest word is the Prius allegedly hit the Roadster, pushing it under the Touareg, and Doug notes there a piece of the Roadster jammed under the rear bumper of the Touareg.

We’ll keep you posted if we hear anything more."

I guess that is a Prius   If I could have seen more of it in the picture I would have known for sure.  I actually thought it was some odd cross dresser by the looks of the front end of it.

I'm really not surprised the Tesla driver walked away though. In fact I was thinking he or she did, just because lately I've been seeing so many gruesome wrecks and hearing how the driver managed to walk away. The last real mean wreck I remember where the driver didn't walk away was this one   SUICIDE CHICK Ms Femme Fatale took her Stang and rear ended a Civic sitting at a stoplight @ 90 MPH with it  

Well yea it was determined that the Prius hit the Tesla. What I want to see is where is the Motor Bike the Prius also hit.  
Life....it's not about how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep pushing forward, how much you can take and keep pushing forward! - Rocky Balboa

Motor bike?  I didn't see anything about a motorcycle being involved in this accident.  My guess is the Prius driver might have been distracted by something to get into an accident like this.  
Austin Cooper

Austin.Cooper:
Motor bike?  I didn't see anything about a motorcycle being involved in this accident.  My guess is the Prius driver might have been distracted by something to get into an accident like this.

Yea....I just got the updated story on the events...

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/10/totaled-tesla-driver/  
Life....it's not about how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep pushing forward, how much you can take and keep pushing forward! - Rocky Balboa

The odds are still very low though that the American import Tesla would get into a accident all the way in Denmark.  It's interesting to see the Europeans have enough respect for that machine to spend all that cash on, especially when the could save mucho dinero by going with gas burning Elise.  
Austin Cooper