Four Indians were killed after a Tesla car they were travelling in caught fire after crashing into a divider near Toronto in Canada just after midnight. It is currently unclear where the victims were heading or if their Tesla was a self-driving model.

Among those who died were 30-year-old Keta Gohil and 26-year-old Nil Gohil, siblings from Godhra in Gujarat. They were travelling with two other individuals, who, too, died after the car caught fire.

An individual who had just recently become a Canadian citizen was also killed in the accident. The Tesla crashed into a divider, following which its battery caught fire, leading to the death of all the four individuals at the scene.

A woman in her 20s was pulled from the burning car by a passing motorist who stopped to help, reports said. She was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

An eyewitness said that several cars stopped to help and were trying to break the windows of the car to help those involved in the crash.

According to Toronto Fire Deputy Chief Jim Jessop, an "exponential" amount of water is required to extinguish an electric vehicle fire. Once the blaze had been put out, the car's battery cell was disposed of in a dumpster that was then filled with sand and transported to a dump yard.

In another incident, three students from Punjab died in Canada in July this year when a car they were travelling in veered off a highway. The three passengers were thrown out of the vehicle and died at the scene due to their injuries.

The driver of the car sustained serious injuries in the incident.

Source: India Today