Update on Piedmont Tesla Cybertruck crash survivor Jordan Miller

The sole subsister of a fatal clang surrounding a Tesla Cybertruck successful the Bay Area past week is successful a medically induced coma successful the intensive attraction unit.

Jordan Miller, a 20-year-old business pupil astatine the University of Wisconsin, had been in municipality to sojourn family, relatives revealed this week.

They said helium has since undergone what they anticipation is life-saving surgery, after the car carrying him and 3 friends jumped a curb, deed a histrion and wall, earlier bursting into flames.

The 3 others wrong - Soren Dixon, Jack Nelson and Krysta Tsukahara - were each pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

All, similar Miller, had been sophomores astatine their respective colleges, and had been friends from their clip astatine Piedmont High School. They each graduated past year.

Miller's mother, Samantha Miller, precocious spoke to CBS News and The San Francisco Chronicle, arsenic overmuch remains chartless astir the November 27 accident. She told DailyMail.com connected Friday helium was successful 'critical' information pursuing respective surgeries. 

The incidental happened astir 3:08am successful Piedmont, a tiny assemblage acceptable successful the metropolis of Oakland. Police tried desperately to combat the flames with occurrence extinguishers earlier firefighters arrived connected the scene.

Just before, Miller was retrieved from the burning wreck, which present astatine the halfway of a constabulary probe. Piedmont Police skipper Chris Monahan warned Monday it volition 'take immoderate time' to discern the origin of the crash, arsenic the Elon Musk-made car is inactive caller to the market.

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Speaking to SFGate Monday, helium said velocity was apt a 'contributing factor,' but added that it was inactive excessively aboriginal connected tell

California Highway cops further told the website however they are present taking successful the investigation, which Monahan said volition apt not output thing monumental immoderate clip soon.

He and authorities officials volition apt looking into whether the electrical vehicles' batteries exploded oregon caught occurrence pursuing the archetypal impact, creating a concern astir intolerable to survive.

Piedmont Fire Chief Dave Brannigan antecedently formed uncertainty connected specified a mentation the time of the crash, describing the incidental arsenic 'more on the lines of a emblematic car fire.' 

The assertion - arsenic good arsenic the aboriginal greeting incidental - happened the time earlier Thanksgiving, and days distant from the archetypal day of the archetypal Cybertruck income connected November 30, 2023.

Brannigan added that helium doubted the occurrence was brought connected by the three-ton machine's artillery due to the fact that of however rapidly the occurrence went out. He explained however fires sparked by lithium batteries often necessitate peculiar chemicals to enactment out, sprayed with immense amounts of water.

Such fires commonly pain for hours, the occurrence officials said - hours aft the large, angular husk was pulled from the street.

Miller, meanwhile, was rescued from the occurrence by an unnamed Good Samaritan, metropolis officials revealed - not releasing that person's name.

Thanks to their actions, Samantha Miller said she and the remainder of her household 'are hopeful for a afloat recovery' for her son.

'We're conscionable taking it time by day,' she told CBS News Friday, caller disconnected the assemblage student's astir caller surgery.

'As arsenic you would expect, it's a devastating situation,' she added of the preceding 2 days.  'And you know, we're each reasoning astir the kids that were lost,' she continued.

'They're not kids anymore, but they inactive are to us.' She added however she has been successful interaction with the families of the different victims, and however she and the remainder of her are grateful for the enactment they've been receiving.

'Piedmont is simply a fantastic community,' Miller said, arsenic a memorial tract adjacent the country of the still-shrouded clang continues to gully visitors. 

'We person galore adjacent friends, and they've been incredibly kind,' the ma added, arsenic investigators present look into what caused the clang and the occurrence that followed it.

The Cybertruck, meanwhile, faced a stunning six recalls implicit the people of this twelvemonth - astir precocious past period owed to a responsibility successful an electrical inverter that tin casue the thrust wheels to suffer power. 

Other callbacks covered failures with the car's rearview camera technology, which didn't activate instantly upon shifting into reverse. 

Another callback revolved astir an incorrect font size connected the vehicle's instrumentality sheet informing lights. 

Yet different progressive a hole to the EV's state pedals aft they were recovered prone to getting stuck successful the interior trim.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Miller's parent for an update. As of writing, the grade and quality of his injuries remains unclear.