(Los Angeles) The causes of death of Anne Heche have been revealed, the latter having succumbed to burns and smoke inhalation after her car accident.
Posted at 11:44 p.m.
The death of the American actress is considered an accident, according to the results of the coroner’s preliminary inquest released on Wednesday.
Heche, 53, also had a broken sternum caused by “blunt trauma,” according to information posted on the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website.
The full autopsy report is still being written, according to the coroner’s office.
The devices that kept the Emmy-winning film and TV actress in artificial life were unplugged on Sunday.
Anne Heche was injured when her car came to rest on a sidewalk and crashed into a house in west Los Angeles on August 5. The car and the house caught fire. Only Heche was injured.
Anne Heche suffered a “serious brain injury” caused by a lack of oxygen, according to a statement released last week by the family.
She was declared brain dead, but was kept alive until her organs could be harvested.
Investigators on file revealed that traces of narcotics were found in a blood sample taken from the actress. However, the police ended their investigation after Anne Heche was declared brain dead.
August 11 was listed as the date of his death by the coroner’s office.
It was in the late 1980s that Heche first appeared on the soap opera Another Worldon NBC, before becoming one of Hollywood’s most popular stars in the late 1990s. She was a regular on magazine covers and in big-budget movies with stars like Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp.