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First Cybertruck Accident?
- Thread starter gtgarner
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Same reasons. Toyota was going across the road, hit the front side of the passing Cybertruck, then kept pushing at they passesd until it shoved the back end of the truck off the road into the dirt shoulder (getting tire dirty). Cybertruck's momentum carried it skidding across the road where it stopped in a rotated position.
At no point was there a high acceleration of the cabin toward the passenger to trigger passenger airbag deployment.
It looks like the Truck suffered some rear suspension damage. That left rear tire is tilted in at the top and turned in. The other wheels appear to be straight including the right rear wheel. It appears that when the car hit the Truck it side swiped down along the side of the truck. Luckly not a true head on or T Bone collision. or injuries could have been a lot worse.
zoomer0056
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Correction, the Reddit post that first broke the news said it was head on in the post's title. No official reporting says it was head on. Anything from Reddit should be viewed with several grains of salt.
ahhhh...yes. Great observation. Let's add that to the clues.
How about the dirt marks on the road showing the direction of travel of the CT before it came to rest. Dirt marks possibly indicating that the rear passengers side tire only traversed off the road when the two vehicles collided. - which is why only the rear passengers tire ONLY is covered in mud?
Duh-Duh. lol
Wait a min - should we call Monk?
I love this article.
I bet you one of the cars was on autopilot - Since the police report says that the CT was checked for autopilot being engaged.
I bet you one of the cars was on autopilot - Since the police report says that the CT was checked for autopilot being engaged.
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Thats exactly what the police report said. Do you work in CSI?
I googled the approximate location and looked at the street map.
Another report said the car hit something head on off the road, it collided with the side of the truck...it's difficult to say what is true, but the CT held up reasonably well. I'd be interested to see what insurance would say in a wreck like that...many Teslas are totaled with any airbag deployment, but the CT seems to need some new panels and trim and it would be fine.
CHP report
I'm guess the Toyota climbed the slope that Cybertruck ended up nosed into.
Does that really matter? Tesla's insurance shouldn't be involved.
It is the insurance for the Toyota owner that should be covering the repairs/replacement of the Cybertruck, so they would have to be deciding on the value/costs.
Right, it probably went head on into the Cybertruck after swerving up and down slope. From Cybertruck's point of view it was sideswiped/ t-boned/ pit manuvered.
Yeah, came back here update after I remembered not all states are no-fault like we are in Michigan.
Was thrown off by the insurance valuation comment.
Watts_Up
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I wonder if the Corolla driver (17 year old) was distracted by looking at the Cybertruck? !!!!!
See extract from the police report:
"...the driver, for unknown reasons, turned to the right and subsequently struck a dirt embankment on the right shoulder.
Looking at the video above (see #52 thread), it seems that the Cybertruck got pushed inside the right shoulder,
as a tire mark is visible on the dirt floor, and then the Cybertruck rotaded toward the left in what seems to be
the result of what is called a "PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) manoeuver" used by the police to stop a car.
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