Sparse details are being reported from this crash over a month ago.
The man who died after crashing into a tree near Wisbech has been named as Stephen Fisher, 69, of Leverington Common, Leverington. He died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on Thursday, September 11.
Emergency services were called to High Side, Parson Drove, near Wisbech, at around 7pm on September 2. It was reported a blue Tesla Model 3 had crashed into a tree.
As everyone is probably aware from the headlines this week, a Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont, California on November 27, 2024, killing three.
While Tesla has lobbied hard to blame driver error—as per their typical strategy—technical data reveals anomalies that demand wider and deeper analysis. This is about understanding what the vehicle’s robotic systems were doing in the critical moments before three people were trapped and burned to death.
The 52-Second System Failure
Before examining the Tesla “deathtrap” doors, it’s important to set context with the system state during the moments leading up to the crash. The CHP report (070925-kgo-piedmont-crash-MAIT_Redacted.pdf) reveals a troubling pattern:
Timeline (Pacific Time):
That’s a 52-second gap where the camera stopped recording and the vehicle traveled 0.4 miles with no video data. During this time, multiple systems were compromised—the Autopilot state had been unavailable for four minutes before the crash.
Critical System Status:
Why did the rear camera fail in a system supposedly designed for redundancy and continuous recording? The rear camera is critical—it serves as the backup camera and provides data for Autopilot/FSD systems.
The “Not Available” Problem
What does “Autopilot State Not Available” indicate? That’s not an “off” or “disengaged” state—it’s engineering language for a communication failure. The system cannot report anything, can not give status.
The Autopilot state became unavailable at 03:02:02, about four minutes before the crash. This wasn’t an instantaneous failure; it was progressive system degradation. The vehicle continued operating for several minutes with compromised systems.
Possible Timeline:
What Could Have Gone Wrong During the Turn
If vehicle systems were compromised, loss of control during a turn becomes likely:
Stability control degradation: If sensors or computers were malfunctioning, stability control might not have worked properly. The driver could have turned the wheel expecting normal response but received delayed or incorrect vehicle reaction.
Torque vectoring issues: The Cybertruck uses individual motor control for front and rear axles. If control systems were compromised, torque distribution during the turn could have been wrong, causing understeer or oversteer the driver couldn’t anticipate.
Sensor fusion failure: Modern vehicles fuse data from multiple sensors (wheel speed, yaw rate, steering angle, GPS, IMU). If this fusion was failing, the vehicle might have made control decisions based on incomplete or incorrect data.
The Steer-by-Wire Risk
The Cybertruck heavily promotes that it was designed with a steer-by-wire technology where the wheel has no mechanical connection to the wheels—the first mass-market vehicle with this system.
When the connection system fails, steering fails.
If the MCU was experiencing problems (explaining why Autopilot state was “not available” and why the camera stopped recording), the steer-by-wire system—which depends entirely on functioning computers—could have been compromised during the turn onto Hampton Road.
The Pattern of System Failures
The Piedmont crash isn’t an isolated incident of Cybertruck system anomalies. In February 2025, a Florida software developer’s Cybertruck crashed into a light pole while on Autopilot, with the driver reporting the vehicle:
…failed to merge out of a lane that was ending [and] made no attempt to slow down or turn until it had already hit the curb.
Multiple Cybertruck owners have reported “Critical issue detected” warnings requiring immediate service, and as recently as February 2025, brand new Cybertrucks are being delivered with completely non-functional Autopilot systems, with service technicians reportedly “stumped” and unable to diagnose the problems.
Owners have reported “Critical steering issue detected” and “Loss of system redundancy detected” warnings related to the steer-by-wire system’s sensors.
Tesla’s MCU also has a documented history of catastrophic failures. In earlier Tesla models, a failing navigation MicroSD card could cause the entire MCU system to crash and prevent it from restarting, with symptoms beginning with navigation issues before the system goes completely black. When MCU failures occur, some drivers report being unable to shift their vehicles into gear.
Two Very Tesla Problems
As has been the case for years with Tesla, in a nod to clear regression into defects known from 1970s-era door designs that don’t open in a fiery crash, the recent Piedmont Cybertruck tragedy is investigated best and explained clearly by local journalism.
The Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.
…the Bay Area News Group has been going through the testimony of the CHP investigation. And the deaths appear to be more the result of the vehicle fire… troublingly, that testimony also showed the Cybertruck’s doors could not be opened in the aftermath of the crash, preventing Riordan from pulling the other three victims from the flaming wreckage.
Riordan said that when he approached the burning vehicle, and tried to open the doors, they would not open. He said he “pulled for a few seconds, but nothing budged at all.” He also said “I then tried the button on the windshield of [survivor Jordan Miller’s] door, then [victim Krysta Tsukahara’s] door.”
He said he then pounded the windows with his fists, which did not work, and then struck the windows with a thick tree branch around a dozen times until he was able to crack and dislodge a passenger-side window. That was how he was able to pull Jordan Miller out of the vehicle.
But when he attempted to pull Tsukahara from that same window, Riordan testified, “I grabbed her arm to try and pull her towards me, but she retreated because of the fire.”
“Two very Tesla problems” is exactly right—and it means Tesla has actually combined two Ford Pinto-level failures into one vehicle.
Problem 1: The crash itself may have been caused by system failures
Problem 2: The doors trapped survivors in the fire
There’s no other negligence like we see in Tesla, which repeatedly has been flagged for deaths caused by obviously flawed, rushed and regressive designs. And we know this because past lessons and litigation were supposed to permanently change the car industry in a way that nobody would attempt such deadly “efficiency” math again.
The Pinto killed 27 people over 7 years before being recalled. Tesla’s door design alone has killed at least 11 people, and the company continues selling vehicles with the same deadly design—even after eight recalls affecting the Cybertruck, including one for every vehicle ever delivered.
There are dozens of Tesla cases with similar tragedy as Piedmont. We still don’t see the kind of necessary attention the Ford Pinto generated even though it had far fewer deaths over a much longer period.
What Needs Investigation
The 52-second gap with no camera footage, combined with an unavailable Autopilot state, raises fundamental questions about what these vehicle systems were doing before three people died.
A thorough investigation should determine:
The Piedmont crash exposes both problems simultaneously: systems that may have caused the crash, and doors that prevented escape. The data gap is crucial evidence of what Tesla’s failing systems were doing before three young people died trapped in a burning vehicle, conscious and struggling to escape.
Until Tesla releases complete telemetry, and until regulators investigate whether system malfunctions caused the crash itself, any discussion on driver error remains not just premature—it’s potentially obscuring a greater-than-Pinto-level scandal where defective computer systems are the cause of Tesla crashes where “deathtrap” systems prevent escape.
Piedmont reveals two catastrophic failure modes in one deadly Tesla package, from a company that continues to sell unsurvivable vehicles while blaming their victims.
The durian fruit has been banned in hotels across Asia, has evacuated buildings in Australia and Canada, and yet now seems to be conquering Germany one fire brigade call at a time.
The Southeast Asian fruit’s smell, which resembles that of gas, was noticed by visitors to a shopping center in the city, located in western Germany.
Welcome, Germany, to the “Durian Panic Club” that includes basically every other nation that accepted the nature of shipped fruit to supermarkets in the last 20 years.
Your membership card is in the mail. It smells like gas.
(It’s not gas. It’s durian.)
In what can only be described as Germany’s most efficient journey from hungry ignorance to fruitful enlightenment, the Wiesbaden fire brigade was called out four times on Saturday to investigate the same gas leak that turned out to be a single durian fruit at an Asian supermarket.
Four times.
Four. Times.
Leave it to Germany to encounter a problem, methodically measure it with high precision instruments, find no rational explanation, and then… call the fire brigade, three more times.
“Zere is no gas connection in zis building,” one can imagine them saying, staring at their equipment in confusion. “Ze measurements show nothing. And yet… ze smell persists. We must investigate again, Hanz. And again, Franz…”
Meanwhile, anyone used to pausing to smell the fruit at a market, or reading the news from countries that eat fruit, is thinking:
“Yes. We know. We’ve known since… around 300 BCE. It’s delicious.”
Related: “Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploited in Widespread Extortion Campaign”
The question isn’t whether Oracle is paying Tony Blair through his Institute (TBI) for lobbying and forcing top-down sales. The infamously untrusted and overtly political Palantir has proven lately that’s just a standard English breakfast fare for Big Tech deals.
Many feel that their professional judgement has been overlooked, and that this is yet another example of a top-down digital decision that lacks transparency and accountability.
Based on extensive evidence from multiple investigations and insider testimony, the real question should be: why are governments still taking meetings with Oracle’s TBI?
When a billionaire gives a whopping quarter-billion dollars to the former prime minister’s pockets, to gain extraordinary government capture of policies to benefit that billionaire, it’s not philanthropy.
As one technology writer has put it:
Tony Blair is really just a salesman for the tech companies, and flies around the world looking for naive Governments who want to believe in magical solutions.
This isn’t just a UK story. Former TBI employees describe similar dynamics in developing countries, with the institute acting as what insiders call a “tech sales & lobbying operation for Oracle”
It’s almost like we know why the company was named an “all seeing” Oracle. Was the brand “Orwellian” already registered? What about “Orwellison”? At the Dubai World Government Summit, the Oracle’s main man Ellison was explicit about a very villainous sounding interest, telling his audience:
The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the AI model.
Consumed?
People who need care are seen by the big Oracle as consumption, to be used.
The first thing?
Imagine a doctor saying first to the patient get in here so you can be consumed and used by me. Chilling.
The Oracle man is saying out loud that the first thing he thinks a country needs to do is centralize all citizen data for extraction. This “value” model of use is simply inhumane, a repeat of the worst tragedies – populations treated as raw material to be used in centralized power.
Will his government platform soon say “Oracle Macht Frei” on its landing pages?
The deception of Nazism was in treating human extraction as liberation, which seems to be the same false promise behind TBI pushing Oracle’s cynical “AI transformation” as population-level capture by elites without any representation or exit.
TBI infiltration of government to normalize the Oracle plan is precisely the kind of technocratic dehumanization that enables atrocities, by treating populations as data to be captured inside systems designed for inescapable control, unnecessarily privatizing central power over life and death decisions.
It is no exaggeration to explain how this pattern is straight out of history, such that we know waiting until it’s “bad enough” to call it out means TBI walks away with pockets full while claiming to “know nothing” about how they did it. And that means waiting until it’s too late to prevent mass tragedy.
One can only imagine how Ellison and Epstein would discuss moving humans to a digital island for high exit barriers. It sounds like something out 1600s colonialism to be honest, if you think about the huge buildings built around London as displays of extractive power. The devastation wrought on nutmeg islands hundreds of years ago would be lost on most readers, unfortunately, but everyone has heard of Epstein.
In that sense it really doesn’t matter whether Ellison also was on the “Epstein list” or not because we are talking about a modern metaphor to predict harms from certain billionaire behavior (private islands, capturing people with high exit barriers, treating humans as consumable resources). That’s a structural analysis for preventing measurable harms to the public.
So let’s fast forward, to how Britain’s NHS health records dating back to 1948 have an estimated commercial value of up to £10 billion. Oracle indeed has used capture of citizen data to reach £1.1 billion in UK public sector revenue since early 2022, with major government colonization worth hundreds of millions.
The concerning part, in other words, isn’t just a one time exposure, it’s the ongoing access – a form of colonnus. One investigation revealed that TBI staff were embedded directly in UK government departments while still on TBI payroll. Documents show that Technology Secretary Peter Kyle even instructed officials to work with TBI on the national data library project, writing plainly:
Attaching the initial scoping work from TBI here.
A bit on the nose. Which is why it apparently wasn’t hard for reporters to find 29 current and former TBI staff with damning accounts:
“When it comes to tech policy, Oracle and TBI are inseparable,” said one former senior adviser.
Another recalled:
I was being pulled into what felt a lot like tech sales and tech PR… We had an angle, and the angle was more tech, big tech, all the time.
Oracle staff reportedly began sliding into TBI employees’ calendars to schedule meetings and “scope out opportunities”.
I’m definitely getting Epstein vibes throughout the reporting—not because Ellison is connected to Epstein, but because the pattern is identical: private islands (literal and digital), captured populations with high exit barriers, humans treated as extractable resources.
TBI looks to be engaged in a centuries old extractive structure of dehumanization.
Going through the Oracle and TBI papers means learning about innocent and often powerless people unwittingly coerced and then digitally captured by a billionaire who promotes tech islands where citizens are stripped of rights so they can’t easily get away from his consumption, to be used by him.