Anne Heche in Critical Condition After Fiery Car Crash Into L.A. Home: Reports

Mar. 15, 2025

Anne Hechehas reportedly been hospitalized in critical condition after a car accident Friday in Los Angeles.

The Emmy Award winner, 53, was allegedly inside the blue Mini Cooper that crashed into a home on the 1700 block of South Walgrove Ave. in the neighborhood of Mar Vista, causing the residence to catch fire, according toTMZ.

KTLAandCBS Newsreported that the car is registered to an “Anne Heche,” though PEOPLE has not independently confirmed if the actress was driving the vehicle.

A rep for Heche tells PEOPLE: “We don’t have enough information yet to comment.”

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Heche is reportedly intubated but expected to live, TMZ reported.

Sky5footageshows that Heche appeared to be conscious and communicating with firefighters as she was put into the ambulance on a stretcher.

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LAFD responded to the call at around 10:56 a.m., during which it took 59 firefighters around 65 minutes to extinguish the flame and extract the driver, according to arelease.

“We really had a multifaceted incident here,” LAFD Captain Erik Scott told KTLA. “We had a significant traffic collision, we had entrapment of a woman inside that, we had [a] car that erupted into fire, and then we had a home that had significant fire that is red tagged. It’s at this point destroyed.”

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Driving on Preston Way, Heche reportedly ran a stop sign at the Walgrove intersection and drove through some large privacy bushes before the car rested inside the house, according to KTLA.

source: people.com