“Help please … I am going to die,” said Samuel Tremblett in a 911 call, a lawsuit his family filed on Feb. 4 claims
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- Samuel Tremblett died after his Tesla vehicle crashed into a tree and caught fire in October, his mother claims in a lawsuit against the car company
- The complaint alleges that Tremblett died because he was trapped in the car and was unable to open the doors
- “Tesla continues to manufacture and sell its vehicles with the defective and unreasonably dangerous automated door handles,” the complaint asserts
The mother of a 20-year-old Syracuse University student, who allegedly died after being trapped in his burning Tesla when it crashed last October, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the electric car maker.
In the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, Feb. 4, Samuel Tremblett’s mother, Jacquelyn Tremblett, alleged that Tesla designed and manufactured a “defective” 2021 Model Y vehicle that, following a collision, erupted in flames and trapped her son inside, “where he sustained catastrophic thermal injuries, smoke inhalation, causing his death.”
According to the court document, which PEOPLE obtained, Tremblett’s mother alleges that Tremblett was driving the Model Y on Oct. 29 at around 1 a.m. local time on the northbound lane of Turnpike Street in Easton, Mass. After entering Easton, the vehicle left its lane of travel, crossed the southbound lane and crashed into a tree. The complaint added that Tremblett survived the collision…