The 28-year-old drier told authorities she had been looking at her phone and cruising at a speed of 60 mph just before the May 11 crash in South Jordan, Utah.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which is looking into the fatal crash last month of an SUV using Tesla's Autopilot system, said it is removing the high-tech automaker from the probe for improperly disclosing details of the investigation.
Jury selection is underway for the trial against Ford Motor Co. for the role it may have played in the April 2014 rollover crash deaths of a Georgia couple.
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