Posted on 12/22/2025 10:44:57 PM PST by lowbridge
"Call of Duty" video game creator Vincent Zampella reportedly died in a car wreck on a mountainous stretch of highway near Los Angeles this weekend.
The California Highway Patrol says the single-car crash was reported around 12:45 PM Sunday afternoon near mile marker 62 on the Angeles Crest Highway in Altadena.
Two people were involved in the crash, according to the CHP, with one of the victims pronounced dead at the scene. NBC Los Angeles was the first to report that person was Vincent.
The video game developer was reportedly driving the car and was heading south when the car veered off the road and struck a concrete barrier ... igniting a fire.
Vincent was reportedly stuck inside the driver's seat as the car burned ... the passenger was ejected and later died at a hospital. No word on the passenger's identity.
It's unclear what caused the crash.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Which is better - to be ejected and die later at a hospital, or to be trapped inside a burning car? Hmmmm....
I promise myself that, if I become a billionaire, I will not own a sportscar.
Rest In Peace, Vince.
Your decision, I respect that, however, isn’t that like blaming a gun for committing a crime?
I’ve owned sports cars all my life, even raced in SCCA events several times.
It’s the operator, not the inanimate object, which causes the mayhem.
Watch the video, this guy was being a fool.
Shocking to see him get killed like that.
May he Rest in Peace.
This just hit me like a frag grenade...
Vince Zampella, the absolute LEGEND who co-created Call of Duty and built empires with Titanfall and Apex, gone at 55 in a brutal Ferrari crash up on Angeles Crest hwy
Dude was living the dream in a 2026 296 GTS and it all ended in flames
Tragic as hell, prayers up for his family and the whole gaming crew
Modern Warfare changed everything back in the day, RIP to a real one who made billions of us gamers. 🇺🇸🎮😔 What a loss man
You should accelerate through the turn even at slower speeds.
A sportscar is too much for me to handle. Im not condemning anybody for buying, but I would probably end up as he did.
Id do other things, like having a 10 acre backyard paradise or a 300” outside TV.
It’s not just brakes (probably not at all because abs would prevent wheel lockup)
That car is sliding, the rear more than the front (oversteer). I bet he turned off the stability control...
You can actually see/hear it was sliding while still in the tunnel
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?
Great discussion of this accident at your video linked...To an X video.
https://x.com/OC_Scanner/status/2003223127384555884
Jusy out of curiosity, did you used to be in a gaming clan czled LoS?
Per my boys the studios will have to now find another creator to force wokeness upon
The left ruins everything
RIP
I played soldier of fortune all the way through once
Wolfenstein the first one
My only gamer cred
I know that stretch of mountain road. You don’t want to speed there.
It has to be kind of a strange feeling when somebody you’ve admired for so long goes and does something like that.
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