Coppola’s family released a statement to the Associated Press on Friday confirming her death. No cause of death was given.
CCTV footage taken from the scene at Pilnáčkova Street in the Czech city of Hradec Kralove showed how the reckless driver careened through a red light and into a busy crossroads.
Carrie Fisher will be the latest celebrity to feature in BBC documentary, A Life In Ten Pictures, which returns for a second series on Thursday.