00:02Shortly after midnight on January 19, 2005, actor Lamont Bentley was driving alone on Highway 118 in Ventura County, California.
00:12The 31-year-old, best known for his role on the sitcom Moesha, was heading west when he approached the
00:18Rocky Peak Fire Road exit near Simi Valley.
00:22For reasons that remain unclear, he lost control of his vehicle.
00:26The car veered sharply off the road, crashed through a guardrail, and plunged over the side of the freeway embankment.
00:35The vehicle tumbled down the steep slope, rolling violently before coming to rest on the roadway below.
00:42The force of the crash was so extreme that Bentley was ejected from the car, his body thrown into the
00:48middle of the active lanes of traffic.
00:50He landed on the pavement, severely injured and unable to move.
00:54Within moments, the first car struck him, then another, and another.
01:00In total, five vehicles ran over his body before traffic could be stopped and authorities arrived at the scene.
01:07By the time paramedics reached him, Bentley had sustained catastrophic blunt force trauma from the repeated impacts.
01:14He was pronounced dead at 12.23 a.m.
01:17An autopsy revealed multiple severe injuries consistent with being struck by multiple vehicle.
01:26On the afternoon of November 30, 2013, actor Paul Walker left a charity event in Santa Clarita, California.
01:34He was the passenger in a red Porsche Carrera GT, a notoriously difficult-to-handle supercar, driven by his friend
01:41Roger Rodas.
01:43The 40-year-old star of the Fast and Furious franchise, a man who built his career on surviving impossible
01:49crashes on screen, was about to face a real one.
01:53Witnesses reported the Porsche traveling at over 90 miles per hour on a quiet street before it suddenly lost control.
01:59The car spun, struck a curb, then a tree, and finally a concrete lamppost.
02:07The force of the impact was catastrophic, nearly tearing the vehicle in half.
02:13The wreckage immediately burst into flames, trapping both men inside.
02:18While many assumed the death was instantaneous, the coroner's report revealed a more horrifying truth.
02:24The initial crash had broken Walker's bones, but it had not killed him.
02:29He was alive, conscious, and breathing after the impact.
02:35Trapped in the passenger seat, he was unable to escape as the fire rapidly spread through the mangled chassis.
02:41The autopsy found soot in his airway, clear evidence that he was still breathing as the cabin filled with smoke
02:48and flames.
02:49The intense heat became unbearable as the fire consumed the car,
02:53and he died from a combination of the traumatic injuries and the horrific burns that followed.
03:02On September 3rd, 2001, actress Thuy Trang, best known for her role as the original Yellow Power Ranger,
03:09was a passenger in a car traveling on Interstate 5 near San Francisco.
03:14She was on her way to the wedding of her friend and fellow actress, Angela Rockwood,
03:18for whom she was to be a bridesmaid.
03:21The mood was celebratory, but the journey was about to take a devastating turn.
03:27The driver of the car lost control, and the vehicle began to swerve violently across the highway.
03:33The car veered off the road, striking a roadside rock face with incredible force.
03:38The initial impact sent the vehicle into a series of catastrophic flips.
03:43It rolled over multiple times before crashing through a safety guard rail and plunging down a steep embankment.
03:49The violence of the crash was extreme.
03:52Rockwood was thrown from the car during the rollover, her body ejected onto the roadside.
03:57Trang remained inside the mangled wreckage, suffering massive internal injuries as the vehicle was torn apart around her.
04:05Paramedics arrived and called for a medical helicopter.
04:08Trang was airlifted toward the hospital, but her injuries were too severe.
04:13She died en route.
04:15Rockwood survived, but was left paralyzed below the neck.
04:19The driver also survived.
04:23On July 16, 1981, singer-songwriter Harry Chapin was driving his 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit on the Long Island Expressway,
04:32heading to a free-benefit concert in New York.
04:35The 38-year-old was known for his folk rock hits and his tireless charity work.
04:40Just after noon, as he traveled in the center lane, something went wrong.
04:45Witnesses reported that his car suddenly slowed to about 15 miles per hour and began to drift erratically.
04:52He veered into another lane, nearly colliding with a car, then swerved back left, then right again, as if he
04:59had lost control of his body.
05:01Behind him, a flatbed tractor-trailer driven by Robert Eggleton was traveling at 55 miles per hour.
05:08Unable to stop in time, the massive truck slammed into the rear of Chapin's small Volkswagen with devastating force.
05:15The impact was so violent that Chapin's body was thrown upward, his back bending against the roof of the car.
05:22The collision ruptured the rabbit's gas tank, and within seconds, the vehicle erupted in flames.
05:29Chapin was trapped inside the burning wreckage, unconscious and severely injured.
05:35Passersby rushed to the scene and managed to pull him from the engulfed car.
05:40He was immediately airlifted by helicopter to Nassau County Medical Center.
05:45Despite all efforts to revive him, Harry Chapin was pronounced dead at 1.05 p.m.
05:52Doctors determined he had suffered a massive heart attack, likely before the crash even occurred.
06:00Just after midnight, on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayyed left the Ritz Hotel in Paris,
06:08attempting to escape the swarm of paparazzi that had been pursuing them all evening.
06:13They climbed into a black Mercedes-Benz S280 with Henri Paul, the hotel's deputy security chief, at the wheel,
06:20and bodyguard Trevor Reese Jones seated beside them.
06:23As the car sped away from the hotel, photographers on motorcycles and in vehicles gave chase through the streets of
06:30Paris.
06:31Minutes later, the Mercedes entered the Pont de l'Alma tunnel, traveling at high speed,
06:36and struck a concrete support pillar with tremendous force.
06:40The driver, Henri Paul and Dodi Fayyed, died on impact.
06:46But Diana was still alive.
06:49Emergency responders who arrived at the scene found her in the rear seat, conscious and able to speak.
06:56Firefighter Xavier Gourmelan, one of the first to reach her, later recalled that she asked what had happened.
07:02Her external injuries appeared manageable, but internally, the crash had caused catastrophic damage.
07:08The impact had severed her pulmonary vein where it connects to the heart, triggering severe internal hemorrhaging that was invisible
07:16from the outside.
07:17Medics worked to stabilize her at the scene before carefully transporting her by ambulance to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
07:25The journey took nearly an hour as doctors fought to keep her alive.
07:29She drifted between consciousness and unconsciousness, her body slowly failing.
07:36At the hospital, she went into cardiac arrest.
07:39Surgeons opened her chest in a desperate attempt to repair the torn vein, but the bleeding was too extensive.
07:46After exhaustive efforts, Princess Diana was declared dead at 4.53 a.m., nearly four hours after the crash.
07:58On April 25, 2002, Lisa Left Eye Lopez, the 30-year-old rapper from TLC, was driving a rented Mitsubishi
08:06Montero on a rural road outside the village of Roma in Honduras.
08:11She was on a spiritual retreat with her brother, sister, and several members of a small Atlanta band, all packed
08:18into the SUV.
08:19Cameras were rolling for a documentary she was filming about her time in the country.
08:24As she navigated a curve in the road, an oncoming vehicle appeared suddenly in her lane.
08:30Lopez swerved hard to avoid a head-on collision.
08:32The SUV veered off the road and slammed into a tree, then a second tree, before the vehicle began to
08:39flip violently.
08:40The Montero rolled over multiple times before crashing off the road and coming to rest in a grassy ditch.
08:46The impact was catastrophic.
08:48Four passengers, including Lopez, were thrown from the vehicle as it tumbled.
08:53Bodies were flung across the roadside, landing in the dirt and grass.
08:57Lopez s brother, sister, and the band members survived with injuries.
09:02But Lopez was not as fortunate.
09:04She landed with catastrophic force.
09:06The autopsy revealed the cause of death as skull fracture and open cerebral trauma.
09:11She died instantly from the massive head injuries.
09:14The cameras that had been documenting her journey captured the moments before the crash.
09:18She was unable to come to him, she said, she was unable to tell the students that cancelled and
09:18She was unable to be able to save the car.
09:19She was unable to come to her and she's unable to leave.
09:19She did not go to her and she was unable to come to her and she was unable to have
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