TMZ showed Heche driving the same car which was later seen with severe damage at the scene in the Mar Vista area. The actress was taken to hospital by ambulance after being removed from the scene on a stretcher.
Footage obtained by TMZ also appears to show the same car crashing into garages of an apartment complex shortly before the second crash, with residents ordering the driver out of the car.
The car is then seen reversing before speeding off away from the garages. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoAccording to the publication, Heche is reportedly currently intubated in hospital but is expected to live, with the extent of her injuries or burns currently unknown.
The crash is said to have caused a large fire inside the property which took 59 firefighters 65 minutes to ‘access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure’.The LA Fire Department said one woman was found inside the car and taken to hospital and the homeowner was unharmed, though the property has been left ‘uninhabitable’ due to the fire damage.
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