On December 7, 2025, Kayleigh V. Page, a 29-year-old woman from Waterloo, Alabama, was killed in a single-vehicle crash along Alabama Highway 157 near the Morgan–Cullman county line. Alabama state troopers reported that the 2021 Tesla Model Y Long Range she was driving left the roadway, struck two trees and caught fire. She was pronounced dead at the scene. A seven-month-old infant riding in the Tesla was rescued by a passerby and taken to hospital with injuries; authorities expected the child to survive. This is one fatality, not two.
Contemporaneous official accounts
The Cullman Tribune reported the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's December 8 statements, placing the crash near mile marker 17, roughly a mile north of Battleground in Morgan County, around 7:40 p.m. Initial dispatch accounts used a different approximate time, a discrepancy the paper acknowledged. WAFF subsequently reported the local sheriff's account of a stranger helping the infant out of the burning vehicle. Those original reports establish the collision sequence and casualty count but did not discuss Autopilot or Full Self-Driving.
Federal crash report comparison
On September 9, 2026, Electrek reported matching the crash to a Tesla submission under NHTSA's Standing General Order. The matched federal-data fields gave a 2021 Model Y, location near Vinemont in Alabama, one death, a pre-crash speed entry of 55 mph and engagement marked 'Verified Engaged'. Electrek compared the event's UTC time with the troopers' reported evening window. It regarded this as the same incident, but the matching is the journalist's analysis, not a published NHTSA probable-cause determination.
What the automation evidence does and does not show
Tesla withheld the particular software version, full incident narrative and operating-domain field as confidential material. The submission indicates that supervised assistance was engaged in the regulated time interval. It does not explain whether a human driver intervened, whether the assistance system was actively steering at the roadside, or whether road geometry, fatigue, traction, impairment or another cause produced the departure. A 55 mph pre-crash value cannot be interpreted as a complete trajectory or evidence of a particular failure mode.
Rescue and additional injuries
The infant passenger survived because a bystander stopped and removed the child from the burning vehicle, according to county officials interviewed by WAFF. Media reports did not establish any additional deaths. The rescue is material to the incident chronology but not evidence about the car's perception or control algorithms. AIDeaths avoids disclosing details that could identify the child.
Classification and map scope
The record links a verified fatal crash to reporting that supervised driving assistance was engaged, while explicitly declining to conclude the system caused the crash. No final highway-patrol technical finding, NTSB determination or product-liability verdict was located. Coordinates provide a broad Vinemont-area marker rather than an exact road or family location.