15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open

For years, people have lodged complaints about Tesla Inc.’s doors — to US regulators, on social media, in legal filings — after incidents ranging from the mundane to the truly terrifying.

Just this month, a Virginia state trooper bashed the window of a burning Tesla Model Y when its doors wouldn’t open and pulled the driver to safety, a dramatic rescue captured by the police officer’s dashcam. Certain aspects of the episode — doors ceasing to function normally after a crash, leading to a close call involving first responders — mirror the circumstances of scenes Bloomberg News has ...