Tesla driver arrested

Tesla driver arrested

A Tesla driver has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after 11 people were injured in a collision in the Peak District.

Six teenagers and five adults were hurt, some of them seriously, when they were hit by the car on the A623 in Tideswell, Derbyshire, at around 10.50pm on Saturday.



Derbyshire Police said that no one had suffered life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Tesla, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries and has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, as well as drink-driving.

He was also further arrested on suspicion of intent to supply class A drugs, after a warrant was executed at a house in Tideswell following the collision.

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