Another Popular Actor Dies In A Car Accident

Actor Anton Yelchin, best known for playing the young Russian star ship navigator Chekov in the rebooted series of “Star Trek” movies is dead.

Spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, Jenny Houser said he was killed when his own car accidentally crushed him against a driveway wall.

“The Russian-born Yelchin, 27, died shortly after he apparently stepped out of his car in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home and it rolled backwards.

She said the car pinned him against a brick wall and a security fence, and that trauma led to his death, but the accident was under investigation

A number of actors and others who worked with Yelchin took to social media with tributes and expressions of dismay.

Yelchin was best known for assuming the role of Pavel Chekov, the young navigator on the bridge of the star ship Enterprise, for the 2009 re-launch of the “Star Trek” film franchise.
The two sequels – 2013’s “Star Trek into Darkness” and the upcoming “Star Trek Beyond,” are set to open on July 22.

The Chekov character was originally played on television in the 1960s “Star Trek” series, and in the first seven big-screen adaptations of the show, by Walter Koenig, who died in 1994.