SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — California Freeway Patrol investigators launched a preliminary report revealing what prompted a triple deadly Tesla Cybertruck crash in Piedmont. 4 faculty college students have been trapped contained in the Cybertruck after it burst into flames and three died. A witness rescued one passenger and advised CHP investigators about what occurred.
The CHP report states {that a} mixture of alcohol intoxication, drug impairment, and unsafe speeds prompted the motive force to crash.
Soren Dixon, 19, Jack Nelson, 20, and Krysta Tsukahara, 19, died from asphyxia because of smoke inhalation and extreme burns, in line with an post-mortem report by the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau.
Soren Dixon, left, Krysta Tsukahara, heart, and Jack Nelson. (Photos offered by the Metropolis of Piedmont
A fourth faculty scholar who was a passenger, 20-year-old Jordan Miller, survived as a result of a witness was capable of break window utilizing a tree department and pull him out of the mangled Cybertruck.
Dixon was driving when the Cybertruck veered off Hampton Street, slammed right into a concrete retaining wall and a tree, and was quickly engulfed in flames round 3 a.m. on Nov. 27, 2024, a sheriff’s coroner’s investigation report states. Dixon had alcohol and cocaine in his system when he died, in line with the coroner’s report. His Blood Alcohol Focus was 0.195.
Tsukahara, Nelson, and Dixon have been all current graduates of Piedmont Excessive College.
A witness advised CHP investigators that the faculty college students attended a small celebration collectively at a buddy’s home. After the celebration, Dixon was trying to drive his mates to Miller’s home when the crash occurred, the report states. The witness, who was following behind the group in a second car, briefly overpassed the Cybertruck simply earlier than it crashed.
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The witness broke a entrance passenger window by hitting it 10-15 occasions with a tree department, pulled Miller out, and “was unable to continue assisting others out of (the Cybertruck) due to the severity of the fire,” CHP investigators wrote.
The witness mentioned, “I saw a car on fire wedged between a wall and a tree. I instantly knew by the tail it was the Cybertruck. (Miller) was barely conscious. He had his seatbelt on and I couldn’t reach it, so I scream at him to undo it. Eventually he was able to unbuckle. I was able to pull him up and out of the window.”
The witness continued, “I went back to the broken window and yelled for them to try and get out at this window. Krysta tried to come up, sticking her head from the back. I grabbed her arm to try and pull her towards me but she retreated because of the fire.”
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The witness advised CHP officers, “I then grabbed the stick again and began to break the right rear window. I was able to break and pull the window from its frame but once I got in, the fire had made its way throughout the entire car. It was at this point that the first two squad cars arrived. I immediately ran to them yelling there are people in there.”
Law enforcement officials and firefighters tried to useless to extinguish the flames earlier than the three victims have been killed. The CHP report states that the Cybertruck sustained main damages from the power of the collision, and flames unfold by way of each the motive force and passenger compartments.
The title of the Cybertruck’s proprietor is redacted within the CHP’s report.
A full investigation by the CHP’s Golden Gate Division Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Crew will likely be accomplished later this 12 months.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
