Tesla says it is investigating cause of fatal China crash

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"Because of the damage caused by the collision, the car was physically incapable of transmitting log data to our servers," Tesla said.

China's CCTV on Wednesday reported 23-year-old Gao Yaning died in January after crashing into the back of a road sweeping vehicle while driving a Tesla car on a highway in the northeastern province of Hebei.

Gao's family filed the lawsuit in a Beijing court in July against Tesla and the Beijing-based dealer who had sold Gao the car.

Tesla, in its statement, said it had "tried repeatedly to work with" Gao's family to determine the cause of the crash, but the family "has not provided us with any additional information that would allow us to do so."

(Reporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai and Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by David Gregorio)