San Francisco: US rally driving force and YouTube superstar Ken Block used to be killed when the snowmobile he used to be driving overturned on a steep slope in Utah, his racing crew and US media reported Monday.

“It’s with our inner most regrets that we will verify that Ken Block kicked the bucket in a snowmobile coincidence these days,” Hoonigan Racing Department stated on its internet web page.

“He’s going to be extremely neglected.”

TMZ Sports activities reported that Block, 55, used to be driving a snowmobile on Monday afternoon when it “ upended” and landed on best of him.

He used to be pronounced useless on the scene, it quoted the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Place of work as announcing.

The sheriff’s administrative center stated Block used to be on my own when the coincidence took place. He had posted footage on his Instagram web page previous on Monday.

Block used to be an motion sports activities superstar who co-founded the skateboard logo DC Sneakers in 1994 and started his rally-driving profession when the corporate used to be bought 10 years later.

He was extra widely recognized after posting his 10-part Gymkhana video sequence on YouTube, which featured him stunt using on bad tracks and impediment classes.

In line with ESPN, his movies had been considered greater than a thousand million instances and his Hoonigan YouTube channel was the preferred in motorsports historical past.

Block additionally competed in skiing and motocross.