A closer look at Tesla Cybertruck’s design following death of 3 Piedmont students [Video]

Nearly a month after three college students died in a fiery Cybertruck crash in Piedmont, community members are left not only grappling with grief, but also many unanswered questions about the country’s first multi-fatality accident involving Tesla’s modernistic, stainless steel electric pickup truck, released on the market last year.

College sophomores and 2023 Piedmont High graduates Soren Dixon, 19, Jack Nelson, 20, and Krysta Tsukahara, 19, died on Nov. 27 when the Cybertruck they were in veered off the road at 3 a.m. and struck a tree, becoming wedged next to a retaining wall, police said. 

Their friend, Jordan Miller, 20, was able to get out, and he was hospitalized following the accident. His current condition has not been shared publicly.

Tesla’s Cybertruck is new. The first model was released in November 2023.

Since that release, there has been only one other Cybertruck death in the country: Michael Sheehan, 47, was driving a Cybertruck and …