DETROIT — A second federal agency is sending investigators to a fatal crash involving a Tesla electric car that drove beneath a semitrailer crossing a Florida road.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has authority to seek recalls, issue fines and set regulations, said is would send a “field team” to Delray Beach, where 50-year-old Jeremy Beren Banner was killed in the crash Friday.

The crash is eerily similar to another one involving a Tesla in 2016 near Gainesville, Fla.

A different agency, the National Transportation Safety Board, said Friday that it would send a three-person team to the crash.

Both agencies likely will be looking into whether Tesla's Autopilot semiautonomous driving system was in use on Banner's Tesla Model 3 at the time.

The agency also said it has an investigation under way into a Feb. 24 fatal crash and fire involving a Tesla Model S sedan in nearby Davie, Fla.

A report on the Delray Beach crash by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said the tractor-trailer was making a left turn onto a divided highway to head north when the southbound 2018 Tesla Model 3 hit the semi's driver side, tearing off the Tesla's roof as it passed under the trailer.

The circumstances of the crash are much like one that occurred in May 2016 near Gainesville, Fla. Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, was traveling in a Tesla Model S on a divided highway and using the Autopilot system when he was killed.

Neither Brown nor the car braked for a tractor-trailer, which had turned left in front of the Tesla and was crossing its path. Brown's Tesla also went beneath the trailer and its roof was sheared off.

NHTSA also is looking into a May 11 crash involving a Tesla Model S near Salt Lake City.