Actor Anne Heche died of inhalation injuries and burns after a violent car crash, the death being ruled an accident, according to coroner's results released Wednesday. Judged.
His Heche, 53, also had his sternum fractured by "blunt trauma," according to information on theLos Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner website. .
A full autopsy report has not yet been completed, according to the coroner's office.
The Emmy-winning film and television actor was placed on life support at a burn center on Sunday Injured when her car jumped over a curb and was wrecked.A home was broken into in West Los Angeles on August 5. The car and home caught fire.Heche alone was injured.
Heche suffered "severe anaerobic brain damage" caused by lack of oxygen.A statement released last week on behalf of her family and friends.
She was declared brain dead.
Detectives investigating the crash said drugs were detected in blood samples taken from Heche, but police closed the investigation after declaring Heche brain dead.
The coroner's office listed August 11 as her date of death.
Heche was one of Hollywood's hottest stars in the late 1990s after her first breakthrough in the late 1980s with her NBC soap her opera Another World. became. She was on magazine covers and starred in big-budget movies opposite actors such as Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford.
