Anne Heche’s cause and manner of death were decided by the medical examiner and the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
According to its website, the workplace ruled that the actress died as a result of “inhalation and thermal injuries” and that her death was an accident.
Heche also suffered a sternum fracture due to blunt trauma, he said, but did not attribute that to the cause of his death.
USA TODAY has contacted the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office for more details.
Heche’s death came nine days after she was pulled from a burning car and hospitalized in critical condition following a twist of fate in Los Angeles. Heche, 53, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury” as a result of the crash and fell into a coma, according to a respondent to USA TODAY.
Heche was later declared brain dead, but continued to breathe while being evaluated as an organ donor.
On August 5, the actress drove her car to a space in Mar Vista, which caught fire. Without identifying the driving force at the time, Tony Im, a public data officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, showed USA TODAY that a twist of fate happened at 10:55 a. m. m. de that day and that the vehicle “was engulfed in flames. “A representative for Heche later showed the twist of fate to The Associated Press.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said in a news release that the vehicle crashed into a two-story home, causing “structural compromise and causing a strong fire. “The motive force was taken to the hospital “in critical condition,” according to the statement.
Anne Heche died at 53 after a week in hospital following a burning accident
A television video showed a blue Mini Cooper Clubman, badly broken and burned, towed out of the house, with a woman sitting on a stretcher and suffering as firefighters put her in an ambulance. Fifty-nine firefighters responded to the incident and it took 65 minutes. to extinguish the flames and rescue Heche. No other people were reported injured.
Police investigated Heche for driving under the influence of drugs when he crashed. Detectives with a search warrant took samples of Heche’s blood and discovered narcotics in his system, LAPD spokesman Jeff Lee told The Associated Press.
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