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Ford Mustang Mach-E on BlueCruise fatally crashes into parked cars in Philadelphia

S5 · 03/03
2024 · Ford · Philadelphia, PA, USA

Record

Company	Ford
Category	other
Type	fatality
Date	03/03 2024
Time of day	not documented
Location	Philadelphia, PA, USA
Severity	S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale	2 fatalities
Confidence	high
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	NTSB

What happened

A Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise struck two parked cars on I-95 in Philadelphia, killing both occupants of the Mach-E; NTSB investigated.

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