{"id":819,"date":"2018-06-18T06:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=819"},"modified":"2018-06-18T06:24:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:24:58","slug":"tesla-on-fire-uk-director-michael-morris-car-bursts-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/tesla-on-fire-uk-director-michael-morris-car-bursts-into-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla on fire: UK director Michael Morris&#8217; car bursts into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A Tesla car driven by British TV director Michael Morris burst into flames in Los Angeles, his US actress wife has said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marycmccormack\/status\/1007831286176571394\">Mary McCormack tweeted a dramatic video of the incident<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>No-one was injured. Tesla said it was investigating &#8220;an extraordinarily unusual occurrence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla says its electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire than fuel-powered cars.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-44300952\">Tesla hits parked police car &#8216;while using Autopilot&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-43604440\">Tesla was on autopilot in fatal crash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In her tweet, West Wing actress McCormack also wrote: &#8220;And thank god my three little girls weren&#8217;t in the car with him (her husband).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tesla car driven by British TV director Michael Morris burst into flames in Los Angeles, his US actress wife has said. Mary McCormack tweeted a dramatic video of the incident\u00a0earlier this week. &#8220;No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6,9,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-business-of-sport","category-companies","category-entrepreneurship","category-global-trade","category-market-data","category-technology-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}