deadly crash.. 18 year old youtube star drove his McLaren 100 MPH wrong way on freeway [View all]

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An 18-year-old believed to have caused a deadly wrong-way crash on a California freeway was identified Friday as Trevor J. Heitmann, a YouTube personality who had a large audience and customer base in the video game industry.

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Heitmann died when the 2014 McLaren 650S he was driving entered the wrong way on the northbound 805 freeway in San Diego and collided with a 2010 Hyundai SUV carrying a 43-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter. They both died in Thursday's fiery crash.

Heitmann was a San Diego resident, officials said, and a local private school, La Jolla Country Day, lists him as a former student. The names of the mother and daughter were being withheld by authorities until their family could be notified.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-game-figure-drove-mclaren-deadly-wrong-way-crash-police-n903816

An 18-year-old man has died along with a woman and her 12-year-old daughter after he crashed a McLaren into their vehicle while driving 100mph in the wrong direction on a California highway.

None of the victims from Thursday's crash have been identified formally but friends have identified the man as popular YouTuber and gamer McSkillet who was banned from trading "skins" for the popular video game Counter Strike Global Offensive (CS: GO) earlier this year. His real name is Trevor Heitmann.

The ban meant he lost around $100,000 in virtual inventory which he could have sold, according to his fans and gaming industry pundits, reports Daily Mail.

On Friday, he drove his McLaren 650S in the wrong direction down I-805 HOV in San Diego at 4.30pm.

Thirty minutes earlier, witnesses saw a teenage boy in a black McLaren smash through the gates of an elementary school. No one there was hurt.

According to police, the teenager was driving southbound in the northbound lane of the highway when he plowed into the woman's 2010 Hyundai SUV.


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Witnesses who saw him plow his vehicle through the gates of Ashley Falls Elementary School said they were afraid he was trying to hurt children.

"I was worried he was going to hit the two people standing at the gate.

"They stood in the middle trying to stop him, doing hand motions but he didn't stop at all. If they didn't move they would've got run over.

"He didn't stop his car, he just kept accelerating and the gate busted open when he hit it," Alec Galloway told Fox News.

Friends and fans of the YouTuber have paid tribute to him since the news emerged and assigned blame for his death with Valve, the company which banned him from trading.