Parents of teenager killed in Piedmont Cybertruck crash sue the driver’s family

A joyride amongst outdated pals who ended up in a tragic collision will now evaluate their households in opposition to one another in a court docket.

Krysta Tsukahara household has brought an unlawful death of lawsuit In Alameda Superior Court docket in opposition to the estates of Soren Dixon and others whose household says they have been ‘in a technique or one other’ legally accountable, whether or not in negligence, contract, assure, strict legal responsibility ‘earlier than her dying.

Tsukahara, a 19-year-old scholar, was a passenger in a Tesla Cybertruck, powered by Dixon, a buddy of her time at Piedmont Excessive College, throughout a midnight trip on November 27, 2024. Dixon, Tsukahara, Jack Nelson, and Jordan Miller was all within the truck.

Miller was the one one who survived the incident. He was dragged out of the truck by a window on the passenger facet, damaged by one other buddy, Matt Riordan, who drove behind them. Miller tried to avoid wasting the opposite passengers, however couldn’t do that earlier than the cyber truck was set on hearth. Tsukahara, Dixon and Nelson reinforcement within the hearth, based on paperwork offered to the Oaklandside by the Coroner of Alameda County.

The then get together guests instructed the California Freeway Patrol that Dixon had drunk in the course of the occasion, with one one who mentioned he had had not less than eight drinks. The coroner found that he had an alcohol content material within the blood above the authorized restrict and traces of cocaine.

In a letter to the media, Carl Tsukuhara, the daddy of Krysta, mentioned that his daughter “had her all her life.” He wrote: “We not solely needed to endure the lack of our daughter and our son’s loss, however we needed to endure from the silence of those that have been along with her that evening and what it’s like that somebody on this automobile might be within the state that he was in comparison with his alcohol and drug use.”

In a press launch, a lawyer for the household, Roger Dreyer, who’s established in Sacramento, mentioned that “autopsiering report exhibits that Krysta didn’t endure a bodily harm within the crash. Her dying was attributable to her incapacity to get out of the automotive and to be consumed within the hearth that the automobile flooded.”

Dreyer continued: “This younger lady suffered essentially the most ugly dying you would think about. The household nonetheless doesn’t know what the course of the occasions that night led to this crash and why this automobile caught hearth. The household desires and deserves solutions.”

The lawsuit accuses numerous folks of negligence within the run -up to the collision and hearth. Among the many accused are Charles Patterterson, the authorized proprietor of the Cybertruck and reportedly a member of the family of Dixon, and several other “does” that Dixon accompanied and entrusted with the operation of the cyber truck.

The identities of “Doe 1 to twenty” within the lawsuit is just not but recognized to the claimants, however is predicted to be added to the criticism in the event that they turn out to be recognized. They are often added as much as the beginning of a possible check.

These do -people could embrace the Tesla Company and his managers. The criticism says that the producer or designer of the motorized vehicle might have ensured that “the aforementioned motorized vehicle was pushed in a negligent manner.”

Kellie Demarco, a communication officer who labored with the Tsukaharas, instructed us that the lawsuit is a manner for the household to get solutions they haven’t been in a position to get to date.

‘They’re acknowledged by the [other] Households, “mentioned Demarco.” Carl feels pissed off. It is not even an ethical factor. They misplaced their daughter. They do not even know who has offered the alcohol [that night]. They need folks to speak. “She mentioned.

The standing of limitations for private harm lawsuits is 2 years. As quickly because the lawsuit is introduced, the claimants have 5 years to carry it to court docket. The final day to submit lawsuits of non-public harm with regard to this collision is November 26, 2026.

The Dixon household couldn’t be reached for remark.