A Lucid Air sedan burst into flames after crashing into a toll plaza in New Hampshire on Tuesday, with the driver being rescued and taken to the hospital.
New Hampshire State Police identified the driver as Yevgeny Mirman, 51, of Massachusetts.
Mirman sustained serious injuries and was taken to an area hospital, where the condition was not considered life-threatening, authorities said.
CBS initially reported the vehicle as a 2026 Lucid Gravity SUV, but a video from the scene shows the wreckage of a sedan consistent with Lucid‘s Air model — not the larger Gravity SUV, which has a distinctly different profile.
Below is the video shared by Michael Suvillan on Facebook.
The Crash
The incident occurred around noon on the Everett Turnpike. The vehicle struck the toll plaza and became fully engulfed in flames.
The Bedford toll booth has been the site of several serious crashes in recent years.
A veteran state trooper assigned to the governor’s security detail pulled Mirman through the car window, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark Hall said at a news conference.
“Without hesitation they put themselves in danger to render aid to someone who clearly was in need of it,” Hall said. “The vehicle became fully engulfed in flames. It was a pretty dangerous situation.”
Governor Ayotte, who was nearby at the time, grabbed a fire extinguisher from another vehicle in an attempt to suppress the flames. State Police said the governor “was never in harm’s way.”
Bystander Michael Sullivan said he and another man punched out the rear window to check whether anyone else was inside the vehicle.
In a Facebook post published on Tuesday, Sullivan wrote that after helping pull the driver from the burning car, he went back to check for family members.
“He told us was with him in his shocked incoherent state of mind,” Sullivan wrote, referring to the driver’s wife and child. “Luckily the child and the wife were not in the car.”
Sullivan told CBS the governor “stopped us, thanked us. And then called me afterwards and thanked us again.”
The crash is currently under investigation.
Lucid Air
Lucid began deliveries of the Air sedan in October 2021 and is preparing to launch the 2027 model year over the next few months.
At the inaugural Investor Day on March 12, interim CEO Marc Winterhoff said the Air was “the number one best-selling EV in its luxury sedan segment in 2025” and ranked third in the broader luxury sedan category including internal combustion vehicles, citing S&P Mobility data.
Last year, the Saudi-backed EV maker launched its second model, the SUV Gravity, which can fit up to seven adults.
The company is set to report first-quarter global delivery figures later this week.
Lucid announced in late February that it produced fewer electric vehicles in 2025 than it had announced in early January.
The company, led by the interim CEO Marc Winterhoff, revised its full-year production total to 17,840 units from the 18,378 it reported on January 5.
Winterhoff said during the most recent earnings call that the company expects growth to accelerate with the introduction of its mid-size platform, with the first model — named ‘Cosmos’ — to be produced at the company’s Saudi Arabia facility by the year end.
CFO Taoufiq Boussaid reiterated guidance of 25,000 to 27,000 deliveries for 2026 and said the company ended last year with $4.6 billion in liquidity, which he said supports operations into the second half of 2027.
