Three wealthy teens are killed when 'speeding' Tesla Cybertruck crashes and catches fire

Two of the teenagers killed erstwhile a Tesla Cybertruck crashed and ignited successful a affluent municipality person been identified.  

Soren Dixon and Jack Nelson, some 19, died alongside an as-yet unnamed pistillate friend, 19 successful Piedmont, California, astir 3am section clip connected Wednesday. 

A 4th teen who besides remains unidentified was pulled live from the SUV but was earnestly burned.

Cops said they were investigating speeding arsenic a imaginable origin of the horrific tragedy, which came aft the friends traveled location for Thanksgiving to spot loved ones. 

All 4 were aged friends who graduated Piedmont High School successful 2023 and were sohopmores successful universities astir the country.

Nelson and Dixon were stars connected the Piedmont HS lacrosse squad and Nelson besides played inferior varsity shot and varsity soccer.

Dixon continued playing lacrosse astatine the University of Southern California and Nelson studied astatine the University of Colorado Boulder and joned the Sigma Nu fraternity.

Police said the car jumped the curb and collided with a factual partition earlier striking a histrion and going up successful flames, sidesplitting 3 of the passengers and injuring the fourth.

It is unclear who was driving the motortruck astatine the clip of the smash, and cops indicatied velocity arsenic a imaginable factor, adding their probe into what happened was ongoing.  

Both the dormant victims who person so-far been identified came from affluent families whose  homes were worthy respective cardinal dollars each.

Their mothers, Kristen Dixon and Stannye Nelson are committee members of The Cancer League, and Nelson's begetter Todd is wide manager of Abbott Diabetes Care.

The injured antheral was sedated and recovering from pain wounds aft having exigency surgery. 

'We are conscionable devastated. I cognize the household whose lad is successful the infirmary close now. I cognize the different families,' neighbour Aileen Desoto told a section quality station.

'I cognize helium has surgery. He is successful recovery. He had immoderate burns. He is nether sedation. So, we are hoping helium recovers.'

AJ Harris, a Piedmont HS hoops subordinate and person of some Dixon and Nelson, mourned some of them with photos of the trio unneurotic since they were young kids.

'I can’t adjacent picture however I’m feeling close now. I emotion and miss you truthful much,' helium wrote connected Instagram.

'The 2 happiest guys I’ve ever met, you lit up each azygous country and brought joyousness to everyone astir you. All the mode from 2nd people on, determination was ne'er a dull moment. Two of the kindest radical I’ve ever met. 

'You some had specified a immense interaction connected my beingness and I volition ne'er beryllium capable to archer you however thankful I americium for you. Always determination for maine nary substance what. 

'I volition miss you mundane for the remainder of my time. I cognize you are watching implicit america and keeping america safe. I emotion you both.'

Bronson Boyle, who was Dixon's roommate astatine USC, shared a photograph of them lasting successful their dorm country calling him 'the champion roommate and person I ever could've asked for'.

'Our archetypal nighttime arsenic roommates we snuck onto the caller northbound roof, and conscionable talked for hours, getting to cognize 1 another,' helium wrote.

'That archetypal time encounter, and each time of the 8 months that followed arsenic roommates, were filled with unpredictable fun. Always upbeat, ever inviting, and ferociously amusive - that’s who you were. I’m truthful gladsome to person known you. 

'I’ll ever retrieve you arsenic brother-one who was righteous beyond belief. Rest successful bid man. I’ll miss ya each day. I’ll rise a solid to you each time forever.'

Sandy Martin, who was their mediate schoolhouse teacher, said: 'They are astute kids, they are bully kids. They are besides so, kids who were precise supportive of their friends.'

Police main Jeremy Bowers said different car had been trailing the Tesla and pulled the subsister retired of the wreckage.

'The solo conveyance that was progressive successful the crash, determination was different conveyance that came aft it, that was pursuing down and came upon the conveyance arsenic it was afloat engulfed,' Bowers said.

'The idiosyncratic exited the car and was capable to propulsion the idiosyncratic out, but the quality of the conveyance was a Cybertruck and the vigor was conscionable excessively intense.' 

Bowers said it is imaginable the victims and the antheral who tried to rescue them each knew each different and had been unneurotic earlier the crash.

The beforehand of the Cybertruck was wholly destroyed. The electrical vehicle's artillery is not believed to person caught fired pursuing the collision. 

Authorities that occurrence crews tried to douse the fireball with extinguishers, but the strength of the flames was excessively hot. 

'Due to the speedy quality of being capable to suppress the fire, we don't deliberation the main lithium artillery of the car were connected fire. But that's going to beryllium determined arsenic portion of the investigation,' Piedmont Fire Chief David Brannigan said.

The section quality presumption filmed the antheral who tried to rescue the victims being comforted by 2 others a abbreviated clip later.

'This is conscionable a tragic nonaccomplishment of life,' Bowers said. 'We don't cognize the origin of the collision and during the vacation season, our hearts spell retired to the families that are going to person to woody with this tragedy.' 

The affluent assemblage dedicate their Thanksgiving Turkey Trot to the victims and Mayor Jen Cavenaugh gave little memorial remarks to unfastened the lawsuit and led the assemblage successful a infinitesimal of silence.