On March 25, 2026, a Tesla Model Y heading south on Randall Road tried to turn left onto McKee Street in Batavia, Illinois, and collided with a Dodge pickup driving north through the intersection. A Nissan SUV was also involved. Tesla passenger Maggie Espinosa, aged 37, sustained critical injuries and died. Batavia Police documented the three-vehicle crash at approximately 4:19 p.m. The Tesla driver and the occupants of the other vehicles were injured but survived. This database counts one fatality and treats the collision date separately from the timing of hospital and coroner announcements.
Local police reconstruction
Contemporaneous Daily Herald and Patch reporting, based on Batavia Police statements, described the left-turn maneuver, the Dodge's straight-through travel and the third vehicle. Police had not assigned final fault at the time of early reports. The fatal passenger was publicly identified in coverage of the community and a family obituary, which gives her date of death as March 25. A police update announced the death the following evening. Those accounts are compatible with the same March 25 crash but do not independently resolve every medical timing detail.
Previously undisclosed assistance-system information
On September 1, 2026, Electrek reported matching the police crash to Tesla's manufacturer-submitted NHTSA Standing General Order dataset. The matched entry describes a 2026 Tesla Model Y at an intersection making a left turn at a reported pre-crash speed of 24 mph, with the Level 2 engagement field marked 'Verified Engaged'. Electrek argued the maneuver suggests Full Self-Driving rather than basic lane-keeping Autopilot. This remains an inference: the version field is redacted, and confirmation that some assistance was engaged within the reportable window does not prove that software, rather than the human, selected the turn.
Significant matching limitation
Electrek explicitly flagged that the UTC time in Tesla's record did not convert cleanly to the local collision time communicated by police. It considered the otherwise distinctive location, vehicle, collision type and fatality sufficient for the match. AIDeaths preserves that inconsistency instead of presenting the dataset-to-victim linkage as independently certified by NHTSA. Original Tesla video, event-recorder records and unredacted mode information were not publicly available in the cited investigation.
Police and prosecutorial status
Electrek said Batavia Police advised that the investigation was being reviewed by the Kane County State's Attorney's Office in September 2026, with no charges filed at that point. Such a review does not mean any participant committed a crime, nor establish a design defect. Separate questions remain concerning visibility, turning right of way, human supervision and the function, if any, of assisted steering.
Evidence assessment and mapping
Maggie Espinosa's death and the intersection crash are corroborated by direct local reporting; the automation details derive from Electrek's transparent but secondary match to mandatory manufacturer submissions. AIDeaths therefore classifies this as evidence under review with AI contribution disputed. The public map marker is the city of Batavia, not an exact crash coordinate or private address.