A Fiat Chrysler executive says the automaker plans its own investigation into the role of a Jeep Grand Cherokee in the death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin.
Yelchin, who was Jewish, died instantly on Sunday after his 2015 Grand Cherokee rolled backwards and pinned him against a concrete mail box outside his Los Angeles home, according to police.
Fiat Chrysler had announced a recall of the car and others in April after the US auto safety regulator said 117 crashes and 28 injuries had been linked to the vehicles rolling off freely when drivers thought they had locked them in “park.”
Mike Manley, president and chief executive of the Jeep brand at FCA US, the US arm of Fiat Chrysler, says the automaker has not yet been able to examine the vehicle and the circumstances around Yelchin’s death.
“We’re waiting to be able to start our own investigation,” Manley tells reporters. “Obviously, we would like our own people to go over the vehicle.”
— AFP
In this June 11, 2015, file photo, Anton Yelchin arrives at a special screening of “Burying the Ex” held at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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