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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Newly released surveillance video shows how a chain-reaction crash started on the Bay Bridge this past Thanksgiving Day. A Tesla driver blames his car's self-driving technology.
Until Tuesday, we only saw the aftermath of the chain reaction crash last Thanksgiving Day - drive-by video of cars stacked up in the Yerba Buena tunnel, Eastbound on the Bay Bridge, and a traffic jam that lasted hours.
But, Bay Bridge surveillance video now shows how it started. A 76-year-old lawyer from San Francisco told the CHP his white 2021 Tesla Model S was in "full self-driving mode" when it suddenly deployed the brakes. A total of eight vehicles crashed, nine people injured, including a 2-year-old boy.