Caroline Petrow-Cohen
Los Angeles Times
July 3, 2026 - 5:49 am
An electrical Tesla Semi motortruck crashed into 2 vehicles successful Dayton, Nev., implicit the weekend, sidesplitting 2 radical and raising questions astir the truck’s safety features.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office responded to a large collision astir 7 a.m. connected Sunday astatine the intersection of Highway 50 and Traditions Parkway astir 40 miles eastbound of Reno, the bureau said.
The bureau confirmed a semi-truck was progressive successful the accident, and footage of the country shows it was a Tesla Semi.
It is the archetypal known clang involving a Tesla Semi, an electrical Class 8 motortruck that Tesla is gathering successful Nevada and plans to ramp up accumulation of. As involvement successful Tesla’s electrical rider vehicles wanes, the institution is betting connected the motortruck to springiness it a needed boost.
The trucks bash not person the Full Self-Driving mode disposable successful Tesla cars, but Tesla’s website says they travel modular “with progressive information features that brace with precocious centrifugal and brake controls to present traction and stableness successful each conditions.”
According to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, preliminary statements obtained astatine the country suggest the motortruck operator whitethorn person fallen dormant down the wheel.
The clang is nether probe by the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol, which said further accusation whitethorn beryllium released adjacent week.
The Record-Courier identified the victims arsenic Sergio and Jennifer Villaneuva, a mates who got joined successful 2022.
Tesla has not clarified if its semitruck has an automatic exigency braking system. Federal regulators are presently weighing a mandate for exigency braking systems successful vehicles much than 10,000 pounds.
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