LOS ANGELES — Southern California basketball recruit Alijah Arenas has supplied the primary particulars of the automobile crash that left him in an induced coma in April.
Initially disoriented after crashing his Tesla Cybertruck right into a tree, Arenas mentioned he felt panic as smoke stuffed the entrance cabin and the doorways would not open.
“I used to be preventing time,” Arenas mentioned throughout a information convention Tuesday.
Arenas, whose father Gilbert performed within the NBA, was concerned within the single-car crash final April when he mentioned the Cybertruck’s keypad and steering wheel would not reply. Arenas mentioned he awoke to seek out the passenger facet of the dashboard engulfed in flames and tried to make use of his digital key to flee, solely to seek out the Tesla app had locked him out.
“I attempted to open the door and the door wasn’t opening,” he mentioned.
Arenas moved to the again seat and tried to interrupt out the window, however wasn’t capable of. He doused himself with a water bottle to chill his physique down and spent practically 10 minutes within the burning automobile earlier than lastly busting out the driving force’s facet window and falling into a number of inches of water from a damaged hearth hydrant as bystanders helped pull him to security.
Arenas spent six days within the hospital following the accident however didn’t undergo main accidents.
