San Francisco (Kron) – Two new prosecutions slapped Tesla this week accusing Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company with Cybertrucks design which turns into arbitrated death traps after accidents. The proceedings also accused Tesla of not having solved the technical problems with the electronic doors, despite an increasing number of deaths.
An unjustified death trial was filed by lawyers representing the parents of Krysta Michelle Tsukahara, a 19 -year -old student who was killed in an ardent Cybertruck accident in Piedmont, California. The second unjustified death trial was filed Thursday on behalf of Jack Nelson, 20, who sat next to Tsukahara in the back.
“This case stems from catastrophic design defects in the Tesla Cybertruck which transformed a surviving accident into a deadly fire. Jack survived the accident forces, and its impact injuries were minor”, the Nelson trial filed in the States of the Superior Court of the County of Alameda.
Tsukahara and Nelson were one of the four students who were trapped in a Cybertruck who burns quickly on November 27, 2024. Soren Dixon, Nelson and Tsukahara died. The only survivor was removed by a good Samaritan who managed to open one of the vehicle’s bullet-proof windows using a tree branch.
The tragedy occurred when the friends were back home in Piedmont for the Thanksgiving break.
A good Samaritan said Tsukahara had tried to crawl back bench in front to reach the broken front passenger window. “I caught her arm to try to pull her towards me, but she withdrew because of the fire,” said good Samaritan to California Highway Patrol.
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Lawyers said Tsukahara was fully aware and aware of his deadly situation. “She could not open her door because of this electrical failure, just like the good Samaritan who was trying to save her,” said the costume.
After the collision, but before his death, Tsukahara underwent “unimaginable emotional pain and distress when she suffered from flames that consumed her,” the lawyers wrote.
The Nelson trial explains that the doors of the Cybertruck depended on the electronic buttons located inside the cabin and on the outdoor pillar.
“These buttons failed after the accident, whether due to the loss of power or other damage. Because the cybertruck lacked external mechanical handles, no rescuer could open the right rear door from the outside. Inside, Tesla provided a release of mechanical backup, but it was hidden under the pocket liner at the bottom of the door – not to find or use in the smoke combination. heat and chaos of a post-crash, “.
Tesla composed dangerous doors designs by building cybertrucks with “exoskeletons” in stainless steel and a “glass of armor”, materials intended to be extraordinarily resistant to intrusion, indicates the costume. The same characteristics that repel the balls also make almost impossible for crash victims to break a window to escape, or for rescuers to force the entrance.
Nelson, Tsukahara and Dixon were all recent graduates from the Piedmont high school.
On Friday, Nelson’s parents wrote in a press release: “The four young people from Cybertruck were close friends and exceptional individuals, each about to make significant contributions to the world. They were all victims of Tesla’s dangerous design.
His VECRology said: “Jack was an exceptional athlete, loved outdoor and adventure. More than anything, Jack greatly concerned people, was a loving and fiercely faithful friend and had a strong faith.”
Nelson’s parents, Todd and Stannye Nelson, said they were trying to hold Tesla responsible.
Tsukahara was a high -level student at Savannah College of Arts and Design, where she specialized in fashion design. She had a creative eye towards aesthetics, style, fashion, as well as “a shiny and shiny light that can never be attenuated”, declares her necrology.
Tsukahara’s lawyers stressed that Tesla’s S model had interior front door handles that combined an electronic and mechanical lock. When the car had power, pulling the handle opened the door electronically; When the power was lost, pulling the same handle opened the door mechanically.
However, over the past decade, Tesla has designed, manufactured and sold high -tech vehicles without intuitive mechanical door handles that an average person can quickly find stress, say lawyers.
“The story of Tesla of defective doors handles is particularly blatant because they knew from the start how to conceive a system that avoided the danger of trapping the loss of power,” said the Tsukahara trial.
Lawyers argue that Tesla has been “in opinion” for years on her door design flaws. Tesla’s customers and the first stakeholders warned the company “exactly the danger that killed Krysta Michelle Tsukahara: rear passengers incapable of escaping or being saved as a result of a collision, when electronic door systems failed due to the loss of power or other damage caused by accidents,” said Tsukahara.
The lawyers wrote in Nelson’s trial: “Jack Nelson was not died of the accident; he died because Tesla’s conception left him without a practical means of escape.”
Tesla did not respond to the request for comments from Kron4.
Nelson’s parents are represented by the Warch Walkup, Melodia, Kelly and Schoenberger. Tsukahara’s parents are represented by the law firm Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora.
The Tsukahara costume includes dozens of incidents documenting passengers and Tesla drivers who were victims of electric door and fire trapping, in particular:
- In ft. Lauderdale, in Florida, on May 8, 2018, two 18 -year -old high school students could not open the doors of their Tesla Model S after having crashed and ignited. The two trapped adolescents died, while a third teenager was ejected from Tesla and survived.
- In Leesburg, Virginia, on December 9, 2023, a firefighter on leave was unable to open the doors of a Tesla Model there after crushing, trapped two people inside and caught fire. The firefighter broke the driver’s window and reached inside for manual release, burning. “I try to open the door and that’s like,” what is the thing of backup? “” It is quoted in the costume. Although he was able to take out the driver through the window, he could not take out the passenger. As the hydraulic cutters arrived, the passenger had third degree burns on his face. The firefighter said: “He’s the most horrible thing, to see a human burn … If I could open the doors, I could have taken them both.”
- A driver in Golden, Colorado, reported to the NHTSA on June 29, 2022, that after having dropped to avoid a truck, their Tesla Model 3 2019 closed its doors. They were stuck in the middle of the road, Tesla’s risk lights did not work and the air conditioning died out. The doors and windows have also ceased to operate, leaving the driver and their five -year -old child trapped, with temperatures external to around 100 degrees. Tesla road services agents refused to help because the car was not on behalf of the driver, said the prosecution. “My 5 year old daughter and I could have died of suffocation or collision”, the driver is quoted in the trial.
