PIEDMONT, Calif. (AP) — Three people were ended and one gravely injured timely Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck crashed and caught fire in Northern California, officials shelp.
Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers shelp speed was foreseeed a factor in the individual-vehicle collision, but he inserted that authorities would proceed to spendigate the circumstances of the tragedy.
The Cybertruck’s occupants had been driving back from a “function” around 3:10 a.m. Wednesday, but Bowers would not give insertitional details. Someone who also had been at the function, but was driving in a split car, was able to pull the surviving victim out of the Cybertruck.
The chief would not free any chooseing details of the victims, citing family privacy.
Although the police officers who replyed were unable to doparticipate the ffeebles with their fire extinguishers, the fire department put the blaze out speedyly.
Piedmont Fire Chief Dave Brannigan shelp the speed in extinguishing the ffeebles unbenevolentt it was improbable that the Cybertruck’s huge lithium-ion battery had caught fire. He called the incident “more aextfinished the lines of a standard car fire.”
Bowers, insertressing a ask about recent Cybertruck recalls, shelp “there’s no indication that there were mechanical effects that were the primary caparticipate for the collision.”
The Cybertruck, which has been on sale for about a year, has been recalled six times for defendedty problems, most recently on Nov. 5 becaparticipate a fault in an electric inverter can caparticipate the drive wheels to disponder power.
Other recalls covered rearwatch camera images that don’t trigger promptly after shifting into reverse, trim pieces that can descfinish off, thrivedshield wipers that can flunk, and an inaccurate font size on instrument panel cautioning airys. In April, the futuristic trucks were recalled to repair gas pedals that can get stuck in the interior trim.
The city of Piedmont is about 2.5 miles (4 km) northeast of Oakland.
