Tesla Collisions

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/2273

Version Date: 27/08/2024

The Dorset Road Safe Department have provided the following information. 

Tesla Autopilot Driver Assistance is not something we record, so the below information is taken from manual searches 

We checked all validated and confirmed fatal collisions (not including off road, medical episodes or confirmed suicides) and none of them involved a Tesla.

We also then ran a Niche search for all Tesla vehicles involving in a road traffic collision and manually checked each Occurrence Entry Log (OEL) for any mention of the autopilot system.

By year since 2019:

Where you have figures, the number of road traffic collisions in which records show the Tesla Autopilot driver assistance system was active before the collision.

There were 3 slight injury collisions involving Tesla’s where autopilot, automatic braking or collision alert have been mentioned.

Year	Count
2019
2020	1
2021
2022	1
2023	1
2024
Total	3

This is not confirmation of them being activated at the time 

Where you have figures, the number of road traffic fatal collisions in which records show the Tesla Autopilot driver assistance system was active before the collision.

There were no fatal collisions reported from 2019-present involving a Tesla where the autopilot driver assistance was mentioned 

For each fatal collision, if possible, could you provide a short description of the incident, including who the fatalities were (driver, passenger, those in other vehicle, pedestrian, etc)

Not applicable