After hitting a house with her car in Los Angeles and being hospitalized on Friday, Anne Heche is being investigated by police for suspicion of DUI. The Mar Vista house was almost completely damaged by the impact, which started a fire.
Heche would face charges in the collision even if she wasn’t drunk, according to Julia Jayne, the founder of Jayne Law Group, P.C., who spoke to Fox News Digital.
Heche may be charged with careless driving, hit-and-run, and maybe DUI, according to legal experts who previously spoke to Fox News Digital.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s public relations officer confirmed to Fox News Digital that on August 5, officials received an order authorizing them to collect a sample of Heche’s blood.
Both the investigation and the blood test results are still waiting.
Heche will face a DUI hit-and-run charge if it is determined that she was intoxicated at the time of the collision, the LAPD told Fox News Digital. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office will then be presented with the case by the authorities.
Authorities must conduct a confirmatory test if drugs are found in the LAPD’s initial toxicological screening in order to determine the amount of narcotics Heche had in her system.
According to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, this supplementary toxicological analysis may take up to 30 days.
On Friday, the actress crashed her Mini Cooper twice, the second of which started a fire that nearly destroyed a home in the Mar Vista area.
