The owner of a Tesla Cybertruck It was burned alive after the truck exploded in a 2,760 ° C fire, according to a guilty murder action that is being filed in Texas.
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The flames were so intense that the fire made the bones of Michael Sheehan47 years old, disintegrate. According to reports, his skeleton was 20 cm lower when he was found.
The accident happened on August 3, 2024, after he crashed with the car in a manhole near Beach City, about 48 kilometers east from Houston.
Sheehan had bought the futuristic truck from Tesla Just three months earlier, on April 25. After beating, the truck was taken by flames almost immediately.
Unfortunately, he was stuck in the car due to the “vehicle design failures”, according to the lawsuit filed against Tesla by the widow of Sheehan, Shannonand for your parents.
“It was an accident involving only one vehicle. The forces of impact were able to survive … except for the fire, the ergonomic deficiencies and the low resistance to collisions,” the process says.
To the The Independentthe lawyer S. Scott West He said the car is a “two -edged sword.” According to him, the Tesla He put the aesthetics above basic safety, making Sheehan almost impossible to escape the fire after the car lost the energy.
The process claims that the electrical doors of the Cybertruck cannot be opened after a power cut. External door handles fail and internal manual release locks are “extremely difficult to locate in an emergency.”
The action also states that Tesla He gave the owners “insufficient notices or training” on how to get out of the vehicle after the accident.
West said Michael was “very intelligent”, but when the Tesla Delivered your Cybertruck“The instructions they gave to you were unfortunately inappropriate to deal with such a situation.”
The lawyer acknowledged that Sheehan had alcohol in the body at the time of the accident, a fact that was pointed out in the complaint. But he argued that “this should not be used to sign his death sentence.”
Sheehan was the first person to die in an accident involving the Cybertruck Since a Tesla launched the model in November 2023, according to the The Independent.
However, just a few months later, three university students from California died burned in another accident Cybertruck.
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