Teen actor fell from moving vehicle in Alabama

Hudson Meek, a 16-year-old actor greatest identified for taking part in a younger model of Ansel Elgort’s lead character in 2017 movie “Child Driver,” has died close to his dwelling in Alabama.

Meek died from blunt pressure accidents after he fell to the highway from a shifting car in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, the county’s Chief Deputy Coroner Invoice Yates confirmed to USA TODAY Thursday. Meek was transported to an Alabama hospital on Dec. 19, the place he died two days later.

The actor’s unofficial Instagram web page additionally confirmed his demise on Saturday.

Except for “Driver,” Meek offered the voice of the lead position in “Badanamu Tales,” a preschool collection that aired in 2020-21, and visitor starred in TV exhibits together with NBC’s “Discovered,” CBS’ “MacGyver” remake and CW’s “Legacies.” He was additionally featured in “The College Duel,” a movie launched Sept. 5 which he promoted that month on the Deauville Movie Pageant in France.

Along with his brother, fellow actor Tucker Meek, he additionally starred in a number of movies, together with the 2018 historic drama “Union” and the Melissa Joan Hart Lifetime Christmas film “The Santa Con” with Jaleel White in 2014.

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His Instagram web page included a household obituary that stated the highschool sophomore would seem in different tasks due in 2025, although none had been listed on his IMDb web page. The household introduced a Dec. 28 memorial service in Homewood, Alabama, and stated “his 16 years on this earth had been far too quick, however he completed a lot and considerably impacted everybody he met.”

The household obituary additionally famous “a few of the much less energetic achievements he was happy with included video video games and binge-watching each single episode of all 36 seasons of ‘The Simpsons’ and quite a lot of different exhibits, lots of which had been considered with out his mother and father’ information and possibly weren’t applicable for no matter age he was when he watched them.”

“Child Driver,” written and directed by Edgar Wright, starred Elgort as a younger theft getaway driver who’s coerced by against the law boss to deal with one final job.