"The tragic crash plunged the sleepy Bay Area city into mourning last November. As SFGATE reported, a passerby managed to pull one survivor out of the burning car before police arrived. But Soren Dixon - later found to have been driving with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.195% - and rear passengers Krysta Tsukahara and Jack Nelson didn't escape the vehicle. Each died of smoke inhalation; they were class of 2023 Piedmont High School grads, back in the Bay Area from college for Thanksgiving break."
"Each says that the respective victims survived the initial crash but that the Cybertruck's electric door systems shut down, meaning Tsukahara and Nelson would have had to find the "mechanical release cable" tucked under a rubber mat at the bottom of each door to escape. Parents Todd and Stannye Nelson, in a statement, called the Cybertruck's manual door system "hidden, unlabeled, and impractical to locate or use in the smoke and chaos of a post-crash fire.""
"Carl Tsukahara indicated Tesla's lack of public comment about his daughter's death in his statement: "We've had to endure not only the loss of our daughter, but the silence surrounding how this happened and why she couldn't get out. This company is worth a trillion dollars - how can you release a machine that's not safe in so many ways?""
About 10 months after a Cybertruck crash in Piedmont killed three college students, two families filed lawsuits against Tesla alleging the rear door design turned a survivable collision into a deadly disaster. A passerby pulled one survivor from the burning car before police arrived. Driver Soren Dixon was later found to have a blood alcohol concentration of 0.195%. Rear passengers Krysta Tsukahara and Jack Nelson died of smoke inhalation. Each family alleges the Cybertruck's electric door systems shut down after the crash, forcing occupants to locate a mechanical release cable hidden under a rubber mat to escape. Plaintiffs call the manual release hidden, unlabeled, and impractical amid smoke and chaos. One lawsuit cites 34 prior complaints about Tesla door systems.
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