Tesla emblem on a red car. A man was killed on Friday after he drove his 2018 Tesla Model 3 under a 2019 International LT truck. (Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it’s conducting an investigation into Friday’s fatal accident in which the roof of a Tesla was sheared off in Delray Beach, Florida, during a collision with a commercial truck.

The NTSB, in cooperation with the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, is sending three officials to help with the probe, it said on its official Twitter page. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is also sending a field team to investigate the crash.

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