The actress who starred in the 2005 remake of “The Bad News Bears” is dead after being involved in a car crash driven by her best friend, who lived.
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The driver, Molly Adams, 21, was reportedly drunk when she rear-ended a big rig truck on the Santa Monic Freeway. The impact killed actress Sammi Kane Kraft, 20.
CHP:
A preliminary investigation showed that the woman was a passenger in a 2007 Audi that was being driven by Molly Kate Adams, 21, of Santa Monica “at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended a freight truck tractor combination” about 1:30 a.m.
LA TIMES:
The Los Angeles Times reports that Sammi Kane Kraft, 20, was a passenger in a vehicle that rear-ended a tractor-trailer about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday near the Crenshaw Boulevard exit of the Santa Monica Freeway, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. The disabled Audi Kraft was riding in was then struck by a Toyota Scion.
In 2005, Kraft was selected to play the revamped roll as the pitcher, a roll made famous by Tatum O’Neal in 1976.