A decade has gone by since the Jackass cast and crew received the terrible news that star Ryan Dunn had been killed in a fireball car crash.
The TV daredevil was only 34-years-old at the time, and he died after his sports car went off the road at around 2.30am, back in 2011.
Police estimated his car was travelling at 130mph at the time of the crash and the autopsy revealed he and his friend died from blunt force trauma and the fire that resulted.
West Goshen Police Chief Michael Carroll told Radar Online that Dunn was speeding before hitting a guardrail.
“I’ve never seen a car destroyed in an automobile accident the way this car was, even before it caught on fire,” Carroll said. “The automobile actually came apart. It was unbelievable and I’ve been on a lot of fatal accident scenes. This was by far the worst I’ve ever seen.”
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Dunn was driving to his home in West Goshen, Pennsylvania, after a night out in a bar with friends.
At the time police said they found the burning wreckage of his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 in the woods, in a ball of flames.
Horrifyingly, his body was so badly burnt that he had to be identified by his tattoos.
The passenger with Dunn, 30-year-old Zachary Hartwell, was also killed.
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Hours before the crash, Dunn tweeted a picture of himself with two male friends. In the picture they were all holding alcoholic drinks.
Police revealed the toxicology report after the crash “indicated that Mr. Dunn’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was .196% (w/v). The report further indicates that there were ‘no drugs of abuse indicated.'”
Dunn’s was more than twice the legal driving limit in Pennsylvania, which was lowered from .10 percent to .08 percent in 2003.
Patrick Carmody, the Assistant District Attorney in Chester County, told RadarOnline that Dunn was also charged with a DUI in 2005.
He said: ‘In 2005, Dunn was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and entered a first offender’s programme that allowed him to clearhis record after a certain period of good behaviour.’
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Jackass co-star Johnny Knoxville tweeted at the time: ‘Today I lost my brother Ryan Dunn. My heart goes out to his family and his beloved Angie.’
He ended the post by saying: ‘RIP Ryan, I love you buddy.’
Knoxville later added: ‘Please drive safe and wear your seat belt. Ryan Dunn will be missed. God bless.’
Another star, Bam Margera told Philadelphia’s Fox 29: “It was the worst phone call I’ve ever gotten in my life.
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“I’ve never lost anybody that I care about and it’s my best friend … he was the happiest person ever, the smartest guy, he had so much talent and he had so many things going for him. This is not right. It’s not right.”
Dunn became famous for his role in the MTV show Jackass, which ran from 2000 to 2002.
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Originally he worked as a welder and part-time at a gas station when Knoxville asked to use their videos, which became an instant hit.
Dunn, Margera, Christopher Raab (a.k.a Raab Himself) and Brandon DiCamillo, made videos of themselves skateboarding and performing stunts as CKY for ‘Camp Kill Yourself’, before they found fame through Jackass.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
