PIEDMONT, Calif. (KRON) — Minutes before a Tesla Cybertruck filled with college students crashed and burst into flames in Piedmont, one of the high-tech vehicle’s 360-degree cameras recorded an eerie image. The image shows one of the four victims holding a “half-gallon” bottle containing a clear liquid, a California Highway Patrol investigation report states.
The CHP released its full investigation report Wednesday in response to KRON4’s public records request.
A combination of alcohol intoxication, drug impairment, and unsafe speeds caused the driver, 19-year-old Soren Dixon, to crash on Nov. 27, 2024, according to CHP investigators.
Dixon, Jack Nelson, 20, and Krysta Tsukahara, 19, were trapped inside the mangled, burning 2024 Cybertruck on Hampton Road before they died from asphyxia due to smoke inhalation and severe burns, according to an autopsy report by the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau…