Man Brands Elon Musk A Lifesaver After His Tesla Model X Is Hit By A Speeding Car

After his rented Model X withstood being torpedoed by a speeding, stolen car the night before his wedding, John Tran is publicly thanking Tesla management for saving his life
Man Brands Elon Musk A Lifesaver After His Tesla Model X Is Hit By A Speeding Car

A California man is thanking Elon Musk for saving his life the night before his wedding, after his rented Model X shrugged-off a brutal hit by a speeding stolen car.

John Tran, who actually works as an automation controls consultant for Tesla on the stamping, body and paint lines, was leaving a restaurant in San Jose after his wedding rehearsal (they have those, apparently), when a stolen car ploughed into the driver’s side of the Model X Tran had hired for the wedding.

Man Brands Elon Musk A Lifesaver After His Tesla Model X Is Hit By A Speeding Car

Fortunately he was alone in the car, with his fiancee Nancy in a different one as the couple parted ways before their big day. The Tesla was pushed ‘20-30ft’ from its original position by the huge impact, all the airbags deployed and, as the pictures show, the front left wheel was ripped off.

Tran describes managing to kick the jammed driver’s door open and then falling unconscious outside the car, after which the emergency services took him to a hospital. The good news is that he was technically unharmed apart from a torn ligament in his right hand. He was even able to get married the next day, as planned. Well, sort of. He obviously didn’t get to pilot the broken Model X to the event.

Man Brands Elon Musk A Lifesaver After His Tesla Model X Is Hit By A Speeding Car

Now the newly married man says he wants to sell all his current cars and get a Tesla as his next car, largely because of how safe it is. The Model X and Model S are both among the very safest cars you can buy today, after all.

Calling the Model X his “shield and protector,” his post on Tesla Motors Club also asks that people try to pass his thanks on to Elon Musk himself, who (along with Jesus, of course) Tran credits with saving his life. Judging by the pictures, that Model X does seem to have held up remarkably well.

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Comments

Joshua Lue

You just need to look at the car that hit him to know what sort of tool was driving…

05/17/2017 - 08:26 |
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05/22/2017 - 16:28 |
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Anonymous

Why don’t you thank the engineers first?

05/17/2017 - 08:28 |
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TheDriver 1

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Exactly!

05/17/2017 - 08:40 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s the same way people thank “god” for them recovering from a bad illness despite the fact that it’s all thanks to the doctors and not some imaginary friend.

05/17/2017 - 11:27 |
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Bring a Caterham To MARS

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Because if he wanted to half-ass its safety to get better pricing, there’d be little to thank the engineers for, probably

05/17/2017 - 11:40 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Without Elon Musk there would be no engineers for Tesla? Start at the top, bro.

05/17/2017 - 12:29 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Who do you think hired them?

05/17/2017 - 16:53 |
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BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)
05/17/2017 - 08:36 |
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Ali Mahfooz

“All his future cars will be Tesla”… Volvo is disappointed.

05/17/2017 - 08:37 |
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BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)

#stancelife

05/17/2017 - 08:38 |
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🇵🇷 Bryson Williams (Bryson2jz) [AOT] (THE RE

In reply to by BV86_OFISHAL (…

I knew someone was going to say something about that wheel

05/17/2017 - 10:56 |
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Anonymous

Tesla is the new Volvo

05/17/2017 - 08:53 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

To be the new Volvo, it would have t start building reliable cars

05/17/2017 - 10:48 |
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Anonymous

Hmmmm Good guy Musk

05/17/2017 - 08:57 |
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Fat Beckham

Tesla consultant says Tesla are good. Who’d have thought it??

05/17/2017 - 09:39 |
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Anonymous

Anyone else think of this after reading the guy’s name was John Tran….

05/17/2017 - 11:55 |
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Andrés Cely Herazo

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

So after being shot by Brian, he decided to do something for his life and now he works for Tesla… Now we understand why he is not appearing anymore on the F&F saga…

05/17/2017 - 12:37 |
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Anonymous

Get a Volvo 850. You can’t even die because of your age LOL.

05/17/2017 - 12:04 |
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