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Police have identified the driver who killed himself and left a mother and daughter dead in a 100mph car crash as teenage Youtube gaming star Trevor Heitmann.
The 18-year-old sped down I-805 HOV at 4.30pm on Thursday driving in the wrong direction and collided into a Hyundai SUV, resulting in the fiery crash.
The mother has been identified as Aileen Pizarro, 43, and her daughter as Aryana Pizarro, 12, by her son according to the San Diego Union Tribune.
After the crash friends and online users informally identified Heitmann as the driver. The California Highway Patrol confirmed his identity in a press conference on Friday.
Heitmann, from San Diego, rose to stardom in the popular video game Counter Strike: Global Offensive and ran a YouTube channel where he was known as 'OG McSkillet' and had 900,000 subscribers.
However his lucrative gaming career came to a halt after he was banned from selling 'skins', virtual textures for weapons in the game, which lost him $100,000 in virtual inventory.
Some of his fans on Twitter speculate that the crash was a suicide attempt.