Indian-Origin California Man Who Drove Tesla Off Cliff Was Experiencing Psychotic Episode, Claim Defence Doctors [Video]

Dharmesh Patel Case: The Indian-origin radiologist accused of deliberately driving his Tesla off a cliff in the US state of California with his wife and children inside the vehicle was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the incident, doctors testifying in his defence reportedly claimed at a hearing earlier this week. According to the prosecution, Dharmesh Patel, a resident of California’s Pasadena, was charged with multiple counts of attempted murder in January last year after he drove the family’s electric vehicle off a cliff at Devils Slide on Highway 1 near Half Moon Bay.

All of the car’s four occupants — Dharmesh, his wife Neha, and their son and daughter aged seven and four at the time respectively — miraculously survived the crash that took place after the vehicle plunged 250 feet onto a rocky beach. Patel (43) was experiencing hallucinations, hearing footsteps and was convinced that his children had been …