The driver of an early Tesla Model S has died in a vehicle fire in Germany, along with two nine-year-old children who were passengers in the car.

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According to local newspaper Ruhr News – as first reported by The New York Post – the large electric sedan, which is no longer available in Australia, burst into flames after crashing into a tree earlier this month, when all but one of the occupants was unable to escape the wreck.

A witness reportedly tried to free those trapped, but the car's electric door handles

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