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The famous Emmy-winning Anne Heche dies after a horrifying car crash. On August 5, 2022 she crashed her Mini Cooper into a residence in Mar Vista in Los Angeles. The high-speed crash turned her car into flames. After 65 minutes of struggle, she was rescued from the burning car and sent to the hospital. Shortly after the accident she fell into a coma. She was kept on life supports after she was pronounced brain dead on Aug 12, 2022. On Aug 14, 2022 she was peacefully let to die as the life supports were removed.
Though she was famous and rich, her money could not save her life as drive under the influence pulled the curtain of her life. The Los Angeles Police Department revealed that her blood had the presence of narcotics. They continued their investigations after the accident and it was said that if she came back to life, she had to face DUI felony charges.
Hours prior to her accident, a podcast was released where she was seen drinking vodka with her co-participant. In the image of Heche with a red-capped bottle in her Mini Cooper was clicked hours before her crash. Heche first crashed her car into a garage and fled the scene when the nearby people rushed towards her car just 30 minutes prior to the main and fatal crash. These were proof for her driving under the influence of drug or alcohol.
The crash on Aug5, 2022 was her first DUI crash which brought the end to her life. Rash driving and driving under the influence can be detrimental enough to take the life of an individual. Anne Heche’s life was an example for that. There is no first time or a second time in a DUI accident. if you are not fit to be behind the wheel, it can put an end to everything.
Though her death had closed the DUI charges against her, it has a message to tell the world, how important the traffic rules are and how one should stay away from being behind the wheel when under the influence of drug, alcohol or prescription medicine that prevents driving.
If at all you were arrested for a DUI charge depending on the severity of the accident, you might be given the penalties of fine, driving license suspension and jail time for the first time DUI accident. you could be charges a misdemeanor or felony depending on the type of damages you have made. Repeated felony will impose permanent license revocation and more jail time.
