Woman recalls finding mom "under the rubble" after Tesla crashed into home

The girl of a pistillate killed erstwhile a Tesla allegedly connected autopilot struck her Texas location says her parent "still had her full beingness up of her."

Officials accidental Martha Avila was killed erstwhile a Tesla crashed into her location successful Katy, Texas, connected Friday.

"My ma was specified a caring woman," said Avila's daughter, Jennifer Barbour.

The 76-year-old's family, including Barbour, was besides astatine the location erstwhile the clang happened.

"As I was talking to the 911 operator, that's erstwhile we saw my mom, similar nether the rubble," Barbour told CBS affiliate KHOU. "She was pinned against the partition due to the fact that helium pushed her fridge, like, against her."

Prior to the crash, surveillance video from a neighbour shows the Tesla traveling astatine a precocious velocity down the street. According to instrumentality enforcement, the 44-year-old driver, who was taken to the hospital, did not look intoxicated and was cooperative. He told officials that the Tesla was connected autopilot.

"We've asked radical who are acquainted with Teslas arsenic good arsenic the operator progressive successful the car to spot if – what relation the driver's power implicit the car played successful this crash," said  Sgt. Alex Turman of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Tesla has not responded to CBS News' petition for comment. In a safety report, the institution says Teslas successful self-driving mode, paired with a human's "active supervision" get into less collisions per mile driven than the estimated U.S. conveyance averages.

An probe is underway and nary charges person been filed yet.

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