According to Eltrys, the top U.S. car safety agency has officially begun investigating the April collision that killed a family of four in the all-electric VinFast VF8 SUV.
Around 9 o’clock on April 24th, the accident occurred in Pleasanton, California. The car seemed to lose control, according to police who spoke with local media at the time; it then crashed into an oak tree and caught fire. In an interview with Eltrys on Monday, an NHTSA representative said that the agency’s Special Incident Investigations unit would “document the crash circumstances and the ensuing fire.”
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department has identified the victims as Tarun and Rincy George, together with their two children. Neither of them had any ownership of the car. 
It wasn’t long after the accident that the owner informed NHTSA that a coworker had borrowed the electric vehicle. According to the lawsuit, the supposed owner encountered a situation in which the lane assist function abruptly pulled the automobile to the right.
On Monday, Eltrys was informed that the National Transportation Safety Board had not initiated an investigation into the incident. A separate investigation is also underway, according to the Pleasanton Police Department. When asked for a comment, VinFast took some time to answer.
VinFast, a Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer, sent the VF8 SUV to the United States early in 2023. Nothing good has come out of the deployment. The business faced criticism for producing subpar products. In May 2023, the company issued a recall due to dashboard screen blanking issues. At the time of publication, the NHTSA had received at least one additional complaint regarding an incident where the driver assistance system abruptly rotated the wheel.
