my Niagra border explosion theory
car accelerator is stuck (something akin to Anne Heche incident?)
car weaves to avoid collisions (viewed as reckless driving by witnesses)
he can't make the curve, no choice but to hive the angled median which launches the car
car is actually a Tesla thus a fiery display from lithium is assumed to be a terrorist attack
backtracking ensues but they are going to go completely dark on this because they dont want to affect the EV image and sales