LI man blames Tesla design for fire that left him with ‘catastrophic’ burns
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- May 16, 2026
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“The fire intensified the danger far beyond the initial crash forces and created an acute emergency,” Kharbanda contended in legal papers.
The car “became a literal hell on earth,” said Kharbanda’s lawyer, Scott Epstein.
Video of the June 30 accident at the intersection of Old Country Road and Newtown Road in Plainview shows flames shooting up from the red Tesla, as a dazed Kharbanda writhes on the ground near by.
Kharbanda, who hopes to go into the medical field after graduation, doesn’t know how he escaped the fiery wreck. The doors malfunctioned in the blaze, and he’s been told bystanders smashed the vehicle’s window to get him out.
Kharbanda, 20, has had the toes on his left foot amputated and suffered numerous third and fourth-degree burns on his lower legs and feet.
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He woke in Nassau University Medical Center, where he spent the next two months undergoing painful surgeries.
His left hand and face are scarred from the fire; the toes on his left foot were amputated; his knees suffered torn ligaments, and third-and fourth-degree burns on his lower legs necessitated skin grafts, Kharbanda said.
“I was coughing up and sneezing black soot for two or three weeks,” recalled Kharbanda, who also got several weeks of daily, two-hour treatments in a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery.
The former sprinter at Half Hollow Hills East High School ultimately endured four surgeries.
Kharbanda blacked out after the crash, but was filmed writing on the ground after bystanders helped free him from the vehicle.
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