The American actress Anne Heche is hospitalized in critical condition after the vehicle in which she was traveling crashed into a house in the city of Los Angeles, local media such as CNN and the TMZ portal reported on Friday.

The vehicle, a blue Mini Cooper, was going so fast that it went off the road and

burst into flames when it hit the house

, so that the actress could have suffered burns, according to the aforementioned sources who cite people with knowledge. of the incident.

Emergency personnel have transported Heche, 53, to a nearby hospital in critical condition, according to CNN.

According to the television network, the Los Angeles fire department

took more than an hour to access the vehicle and put out the flames.

Heche, who had high-profile relationships with actress Ellen DeGeneres and actor James Tupper, rose to fame in the late 1980s with her portrayal of Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera "Another World."

She established herself in Hollywood with the films "Donnie Brasco" (1997), "Volcano" (1997) and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997).

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