The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report on last month's Model 3 house crash in Texas.
They found the driver did press the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding FSD (Supervised), supporting @Tesla's argument that driver action caused the crash.
Report: "On June 19, 2026, a 2025 Tesla Model 3 electric car, occupied solely by a 44-year-old driver, was traveling east on Rose Hollow Lane in Katy, Harris County, Texas, when it departed the roadway, partially entered a driveway, and crashed into a residence. At the time of the crash, the driver had engaged Tesla’s FSD (Supervised). Electronic data recovered from the vehicle indicated that before the crash, the driver manually overrode FSD (Supervised) by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100%, and the vehicle’s speed was greater than 70 mph when the crash occurred. As a result of the crash, an occupant in the residence was fatally injured and the driver sustained minor injuries.
Rose Hollow Lane is a residential two-lane road with one westbound and one eastbound lane and a speed limit of 30 mph. In the eastbound direction, Rose Hollow Lane terminates at an intersection with Blooming Park Lane, requiring through-traffic to turn right. Security camera footage showed the car’s path of travel as it continued straight through the intersection, departed the roadway, and struck the residence.
At the time of the crash, the weather was clear, the roadway was dry, and daylight conditions were present.
Parties to the NTSB investigation include:
• Harris County Sheriff's Office
• Tesla
All aspects of the crash remain under investigation while the NTSB determines the probable cause, with the intent of issuing safety recommendations to prevent similar crashes."
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, up 25% YoY. Wall Street was expecting 406,000. Total Q2 production was 451,758
Tesla also says that they deployed 13.5 GWh of energy storage in Q2 2026.
Tesla has just officially confirmed that the driver of the Model 3 that crashed into a home in Texas manually overrode the vehicle's self-driving system by pressing the accelerator pedal.
The vehicle struck the home at 73 mph. A lot of mainstream media wrongly mislead people into thinking that it was the vehicles fault.
Case closed.