A teenage Youtube star has been killed in a car crash after driving 100mph down the wrong side of the motorway in California.
The online star, who called himself McSkillet, was reportedly driving faster than 100mph when his £200,000 McLaren sports car crashed head-on into an SUV, killing its driver and passenger. A 43-year-old San Diego woman and her 12-year-old daughter, who were travelling in the Hyundai SUV, died in the incident, the Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday. The California Highway Patrol and San Diego Police Department identified the driver as 18-year-old Trevor Heitmann. Pictures of the aftermath of the crash show pieces of burned and twisted metal.
The 18-year-old, who went by the name of McSkillet online, had made a fortune selling digital “skins” used to customise guns and knives in the first-person shooter video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). But he was banned from an online marketplace for allegedly being involved in a skin gambling website called CS:GO Magic and had allegedly been suffering from mental health issues. Heitmann, who had almost a million followers on Youtube, is thought he lost access to hundreds of thousands of dollars after being banned. One eyewitness who saw the crash, Hector Puga said: “That car in front of me swerved, slammed and exploded within a fraction of second all I could do was hold on to my steering wheel and run over everything that exploded.”
A woman who witnessed the crash told said: “It was like a scene from a movie. All the cars were stopping. There was smoke. Fire. Loud noise. As soon as I look up in front of me, that car other there was flying and tumbling down the freeway.” Anthony Brennan, who identified himself as a friend and business partner of Heitmann’s, said on Twitter: “The fact is that three people lost their life and my heart is broken for all of them. I pray that they are all in a better place and for their family and friends and loved ones. You never know what’s happening in someone’s life and it will take time to understand this whole thing.”
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