A federal jury has ordered Tesla to pay $243 million in damages over a 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot system — marking the company’s first major courtroom loss related to its driver-assistance technology. The incident killed Naibel Benavides Leon and seriously injured her boyfriend, Dillon Angulo, when a Tesla Model S ran a stop sign and hit their parked vehicle.

The jury found Tesla 33% liable for the crash, awarding $42.5 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages. Tesla is expected to challenge the punitive amount in court.

While the driver, George McGee, was found primarily at fault, the jury accepted arguments that Tesla’s Autopilot contributed to the crash by encouraging overconfidence and lacking safeguards.

Tesla claimed the crash resulted solely from driver distraction — McGee admitted to looking for his dropped phone moments before the collision — and said its Autopilot software functioned as intended.

However, the plaintiffs argued that Tesla and Elon Musk overstated Autopilot’s capabilities and failed to restrict its use to appropriate roadways or monitor driver attentiveness.