Purserus: Tesla Design trapped a student inside while he broke out in flames

The parents of Krysta Tsukahara allege that the company that helped Elon Musk become the richest man in the world knew the fault for years and could have moved quickly to solve the problem, but did not do it, leaving the 19 -year -old artistic student trapped in the midst of the flames and the smoke that finally killed her.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The new legal threat to Tesla filed before the Superior Court of the County of Alameda comes only a few weeks after the federal regulators opened an investigation into the complaints of the tesla drivers of stuck door problems. The probe and the costume come at a delicate moment for the company as it seeks to convince the Americans that its cars will soon be safe to run without anyone in the driver’s seat.

Tsukahara was at the back of a cybertruck when the drunk driver and had broken drugs in a tree in a suburb of San Francisco, according to the costume. Three of the four people in the car, including the driver, died. A fourth was taken from the car after a rescuer broke a window and reached.

The trial was reported for the first time by the New York Times.

The doors of Tesla were at the center of several cases of crash because the battery supplying the unlocking mechanism can be destroyed in a fire and the manual versions which prevail over this system are difficult to find.

The trial follows several other people who have claimed various security problems with Tesla cars. In August, a jury from Florida decided that the family of another dead student, that killed by a Tesla on the run in years ago, should receive more than $ 240 million in damages.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which opened its survey stuck last month, examines the complaints of the drivers according to which after leaving their cars, they could not open doors to take out their children and, in some cases, had to break the window to reach them.