A Tesla Model X crashed in the gates outside the Orange County Fire Authority headquarters at the end of Tustin Ranch Road in Irvine Saturday, June 24, night – a bafflingly frequent event .
The car hit the metal gates at 10:27 p.m. and burst into flames. One of the car’s two occupants was transported to a hospital with a minor hand injury, said Irvine Police Department spokeswoman Kim Mohr.
Crews extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes, Mohr said. No arrests have been made. The cause of the event is under investigation, she added.
Capt. Larry Kurtz of the OCFA said that the crash marks the “seventh or eighth” time in recent years that a vehicle has crashed into the gates, which are about eight feet high and 40 feet in width.