Tesla Model Y Crashes Through House in Mexico City

Security camera footage from Mexico City shows a Tesla Model Y crashing through a residential home and launching off a terrace, an incident that authorities attribute to a loss of control on a steep curve.

What Happened

The incident occurred around 5 p.m. on October 19 in the Lomas del Chamizal neighborhood of Mexico City’s Cuajimalpa district, an area characterized by steep, winding roads. According to Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security, the driver lost control while navigating a curve. Video shared by TRT Haber captures the black Model Y failing to make a sharp bend, instead driving straight through a home’s entrance gate, tearing across the garage and terrace, and breaking through the back wall before dropping several meters to a lower level. While early reports suggested the driver may have swerved to avoid an oncoming dump truck, this was not confirmed by authorities or the footage.

Why It Matters

The driver reportedly walked away from the crash without injuries, an outcome highlighted by Not a Tesla App as a positive indicator for the Model Y’s safety design. The video shows the vehicle’s airbags deploying after it rammed through the garage gate. The Model Y earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) Top Safety Pick+ award earlier this year, its highest safety rating. The incident also underscores current limitations in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software; while the latest update includes Automatic Collision Evasion to steer around crashes during manual driving, this feature is currently restricted to HW4 vehicles on controlled-access highways and does not operate on residential streets like the one where this crash occurred.

The Bottom Line

Authorities have not published a final report on the crash’s cause or confirmed the vehicle's speed. The driver escaped uninjured, while the home’s gate, walls, and terrace sustained heavy damage.