A USC student was one of three people killed in a Tesla Cybertruck crash Wednesday in Piedmont, the university confirmed Saturday.
USC did not release additional details about the student, Soren Dixon, who was in the car with three others that crashed into the tree.
Piedmont Police Capt. Chris Monahan said the Tesla “went over the curb, hit a cement wall, then went between the wall and a tree.” Police said speed was a factor in the one-car accident, but their investigation is ongoing.
Dixon's LinkedIn page described him as a biology major at USC who graduated from Piedmont High School.
The details of the other two who died are yet to be released by the authorities; they were also reported to be among the graduates of Piedmont High's class of 2023.
A memorial is displayed for the victims of the Tesla Cybertruck crash in Piedmont, Calif., on Friday.
(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Samantha Miller, the mother of the fourth passenger in the Tesla who was ejected from the car by another driver, told CBS News in the Bay Area that the other two who died in the crash were Jack Nelson and Krysta Tsukahara, college students in Colorado and Georgia.
Miller told CBS News that her 20-year-old son, Jordan Miller, returned from surgery on Friday. Miller could not be reached Saturday.
Authorities said Wednesday that a fourth injured person was hospitalized in stable condition.
Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said dispatchers received an iPhone alert from a passenger in a Cybertruck around 3:08 that morning. The Tesla was involved in a fire accident when police arrived at the scene, according to Bowers.
Bowers said at the time “we do not know the cause of the collision and during the holiday season, our hearts go out to the families who will be dealing with this tragedy.”
Bowers could not immediately be reached for comment Saturday, nor could Piedmont High School's principal or Piedmont's mayor, Jen Cavenaugh.
On Thursday, Cavenaugh attended Piedmont's annual Turkey Trot and asked community members to remember the three high school students who were killed.
“These things should not happen in our community,” he said. “We cannot find a place to practice this, and there is no rule book on how we will get there today. I went to bed last night thinking that the words might come today what I would say. It turns out that there are no words that will bring these children back to us.”
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