The National Highway Traffic Administration said on Monday that it would open an investigation into a crash involving a Tesla Model 3 that drove into a home, killing a woman inside. 

The driver told police the vehicle was using Tesla's automated driving assistance system, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The vehicle went off the road and crashed through the Katy, Texas, residence at a high rate of speed. 

Martha Avila, who was inside the home at the time, later died from injuries she sustained in the crash, the Wall Street Journal reported. Video shows the blue vehicle speeding up to the house, driving across the yard and slamming into the front wall of the home. 

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's vice president of AI and software, said in a post on X that the driver was pressing the car's accelerator and had it pressed after the car crashed. The vehicle reached a speed of 73 mph, Elluswamy said.