Hudson Meek dead: 'Baby Driver' actor, 16, fell from a moving vehicle

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

Meek died from blunt force injuries after he fell to the road from a moving vehicle in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, the county's Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates confirmed to USA TODAY Thursday. Meek was transported to an Alabama hospital on Dec. 19, where he died two days later.

The actor's unofficial Instagram page also confirmed his death on Saturday.

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

His Instagram page included a family obituary that 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, and said "his 16 years on this earth were far too short, but he accomplished so much and significantly impacted everyone he met."

The family obituary also noted "some of the less active achievements 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 viewed without his parents’ knowledge and probably weren’t appropriate for whatever age he was when he watched them."

"Baby Driver," written and directed by Edgar Wright, starred Elgort as a young robbery getaway driver who is coerced by a crime boss to handle one last job.

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