S4 · 08/01
2025 ·
Tesla · Key Largo, FL, USA
| Company | Tesla |
| Category | av trucking |
| Type | regulatory |
| Date | 08/01 2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Key Largo, FL, USA |
| Severity | S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | 1 fatality; jury verdict against Tesla |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Wikipedia (citing New York Times, Aug 2025 trial coverage) |
In the first Autopilot wrongful-death case to reach a federal jury verdict, jurors found Tesla 33 percent responsible for a 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida in which a Model S with Autopilot engaged ran a stop sign and killed a pedestrian, awarding substantial damages.