2013 Tesla Model S fuel system problems

A stolen tesla crashed in west hollywood, killing the driver. Photos seem to suggest that the driver side air bag may not have deployed. Allegedly light poles split the car in half. The light poles seem to be the breakaway type. Suggesting there may be a structural weakness that allowed the tesla to break in half, fracturing the battery, catching pieces of battery on fire, and exploding battery cells, sending flaming shrapnel through the neighborhood.

On june 27, 2019 I brought my car to a tesla service center for maintainance unrelated to the battery or drive unit. During the visit tesla downloaded a new software revision to my car that immediately limited range, power, charge rate and battery capacity. I noticed this and brought the car back to have the battery checked for damage, not knowing that tesla had purposefully throttled my battery. Tesla told me that my car was limited via software because of age and offered no further explanation.