Blame the blame case

Parents of two university students who died in an online crash last autumn are paid to prosecute Tesla, claiming that the design of the truck door is the victims inside.

Separate claims submitted on Thursday by the family of Jacques Nelson, the 19 -year -old Jack Nelson, and the 19 -year -old Crysta Tsukhara, claim that the design of Cybertruck, including electricity -powered doors with hidden hand versions, made almost impossible for students to flee after the accident, According to Bloomberg.

The lawsuits come at a time when the electrical door handles were signed in Tesla, which is already subject to scrutiny in recent months. In September, American organizers launched an investigation into the defective door handles at some Tesla models. and Bloomberg investigation Earlier this year, it also revealed multiple cases in which people were injured or died even when they lost the authority of power, usually after accidents, and their doors will not open.

This incident occurred on the night of November 27, 2024, in Bidmont, a suburb of San Francisco. According to a patrol on the highway in California a reportCyberrtruck was rushing on a residential street when he criticized a tree and exploded in fire. The accident caused the truck’s electrical doors, besieging all the four passengers inside. Three of them – Nelson, Tsukhara, and another passenger – did not survive. The fourth passenger survived after pulling it through a broken window.

Tesla’s Cybletruck lacks traditional external door handles. Instead, the doors are opened with small electronic buttons near the windows. There are manual versions inside the truck, but it is difficult to find, especially for passengers in the back. To open the rear doors of the truck, the cyclists must lift a mat in the door storage pocket and pull it on a hidden cable under it. Along with Cybertruck stainless steel panels and enhanced armored glass windows, which make rescue operations in particular difficult, these lawsuits argue these design features on a mistake in the death of passengers.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo.

Complaints fall as the electrical door handles are already undergoing regulatory scrutiny. Only last month, the National Road Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a preliminary investigation into the failed door handles in Y 2021 vehicles after receiving many reports that parents were unable to return to their cars with the children who left inside. This investigation covers approximately 175,000 cars and will evaluate whether the defect poses a serious threat to safety.

Bloomberg’s investigation has found that NHTSA had received more than 140 complaints since 2018 about the doors of Tesla, conquest or failure in another way.