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The Guardian: Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

"...Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design...“The body inside was severely burnt and was completely unidentifiable,” one officer wrote in his report. “You could see a pelvic spine and ribcage laying across the front two seats, mostly in the passenger seat,” another wrote..."

(CW: gory descriptions of what happens when people are incinerated to death in a Cybertruck)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires

#tesla #cybertruck #gory

Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck

Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is faulty design

The Guardian

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

Per article: “He burned to death at 5,000°F – a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture,” reads the complaint from Sheehan’s family. The lawsuit contends Sheehan could have survived the crash, if he had been able to open the doors and escape the blaze, which flared to temperatures hotter than most cremation ovens. “The crash forces themselves were survivable,” the lawyers wrote.

tom jennings 2d ago

It's hard to believe any vehicle emergency exit is allowed to have any electrical component in the emergency exit mechanism path, at all, of any kind, for any reason. It seems the most obvious thing in the world.

Nine Oh Real 2d ago

@ai6yr 5,000F equals 2.760°C
Just as a quick note.

I've been converting between °F and °C so much these past few weeks watching the heatwave in the US.

Regarding the topic: holy rolling hell 😱

Meanwhile, on Earth One 2d ago

@ai6yr that's just horrible, horrible, horrible. 😥

Lab-TediousBastard-Spokane 2d ago

@ai6yr Nazis building and selling rolling crematoriums to other Nazis is - something.

U.S. Elaine 2d ago

@ai6yr
So, just spitballing here, but with a Cybertruck, you have a remote-controllable vehicle, with a continuous, uninterruptible datastream of all activity, audio, location, etc. being fed to the DOGE-like AI minions of a gazillionaire bent on, literally, world domination, and it serves as an instant mobile crematorium?

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@USelaine Yep, apparently. I sure wouldn't trust one.

AccordionBruce 2d ago

@USelaine @ai6yr
They have done so much in the last 50 years to make crashes survivable for the people inside cars

(Not so much for pedestrians, cyclists, and SUV owners’ toddlers they back over in their driveways)

Now Tesla goes and locks the doors on all that. Amazing they’re allowed on the road

The power of investor value and the stability of the stock market over consumer safety

Katherine W 2d ago

Remind me never to ride in one.

(actually, it's pretty ingrained that I wouldn't)

FreddyB Aviation Photography 2d ago

@ai6yr So if people want to nerd out on this stuff here is a paper on the Effects of Temperature on Bone

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379073812005300

FreddyB Aviation Photography 2d ago

Maybe Space nazi needs to use this when advertising the truck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5lSeYd_riw

The Trammps - Disco Inferno (Original Long Version - Tony Mendes Video Re Edit)

The Trammps - Disco InfernoOriginal Long VersionTony Mendes Video Re Edit 2014

YouTube

FreddyB Aviation Photography 2d ago

@ai6yr Simpsons already did this BTW

"Unexplained fires are a matter for the court"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA

The Simpsons - Canyonero

This is the Canyonero song from Season 9 Episode 15 of the Simpsons, The Last Temptation of Krust.

YouTube

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

FreddyB Aviation Photography 2d ago

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!

@cvvhrn @ai6yr Simpsons has had a LONG running parody of vehicles exploding for no good reason (usually after the tiniest accident.) Parodying Hollywood's ways I guess.

That all predated these. I'm sure they'd really go nuts with these if they still had the same writers and style.

Netraven 2d ago

@ai6yr saves on the burial cost if you’re turned to ashes when you die.

Cat West 2d ago

@ai6yr Their bodies aren’t pulled out of the wreck, they’re swept out.