Teen actor fell from moving vehicle in Alabama

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Hudson Meek, a 16-year-old actor best known for playing a young version of Ansel Elgort’s lead character in the 2017 film “Baby Driver,” has died near his home in Alabama.

Meek died of blunt force trauma after he fell onto the road from a moving vehicleChief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates told al.com. WVTM, an NBC affiliate, also confirmed the death of the teenager who lived in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. And the actor’s Instagram page confirmed his death on December 21, two days after the accident.

Aside from “Driver,” Meek was the voice of the lead in “Badanamu Stories,” a preschool series that aired in 2020-21, and guest-starred on TV shows including NBC’s “Found,” CBS’ “MacGyver” remake and the CW’s “Inheritance.” He was also in “The School Duel”, a film released on September 5, which he promoted that month at the Deauville Film Festival in France.

His Instagram page included a family obituary who said the high school sophomore would appear in other projects due in 2025, though none were listed on his IMDb page. The family announced a Dec. 28 memorial service in Homewood, Alabama, saying “his 16 years on this earth were far too short, but he accomplished so much and greatly impacted everyone he met.”

The family obituary also noted “some of the less active accomplishments he was proud of included video games and binge-watching every single episode of all 36 seasons of ‘The Simpsons’ and a variety of other shows, many of which were watched without his parents’ knowledge and probably wasn’t appropriate for whatever age he was when he saw them.”

“Baby Driver,” written and directed by Edgar Wright, starring Elgort as a young heist who is forced by a crime boss to pull off one last job.