Overview
- Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress who played Jia in the MonsterVerse films, was a passenger and was transported to a trauma center where she was later pronounced dead.
- Her father, Joshua Hottle, confirmed her death in an American Sign Language Facebook livestream and said he was traveling from Texas to claim her body.
- The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office says the early-morning collision involved a 1995 Honda Accord that left the roadway and struck a culvert and that excessive speed is believed to have contributed.
- Officials reported the driver, a 19-year-old man, was hospitalized with injuries not believed to be life-threatening and another passenger declined treatment.
- The Texas School for the Deaf and family have asked for privacy as tributes from co-stars and members of the deaf community appear and the Traffic Unit continues its investigation.