Cops: Video shows Jenner rear-ended cars in fatal wreck

Tami Abdollah | AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video shows former Olympian Bruce Jenner rear-ended two cars, pushing one into oncoming traffic in a fatal Malibu wreck that is under investigation, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The official was briefed on the video but was not authorized to speak publicly and talked to the AP on condition of anonymity.

TMZ has reported the video came from a passing public bus which captured the sequence of the four-car wreck. But TMZ has not posted this bus video on its site.

Jenner was hauling an off-road vehicle on a trailer behind his Cadillac Escalade on Feb. 7 when he steered to avoid cars slowing for a traffic light in front of him on the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, the official said.

His SUV struck a Lexus sedan and sent it into the opposite lane. The driver, Kim Howe, 69, was killed when it was struck head-on by a Hummer.

Then, the video showed, Jenner's vehicle continued forward and rear-ended a Toyota Prius, the official said. Initial reports said the Lexus had struck the Prius.

If the video sequence is accurate, Jenner could be deemed more at fault in the wreck than initial reports indicated.

The wreck is being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Malibu division.

Investigators have sought cellphone records to see if any drivers were distracted, but the video appears to show that Jenner was not using his phone. His spokesman has said Jenner was not texting and is cooperating with investigators.

The 1976 Olympic decathlon champion, better known these days as Kim Kardashian's stepfather, passed a field sobriety test, but also submitted a blood sample to determine if he was intoxicated.

His spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Meanwhile, another video — a re-creation of the accident by a video company — is playing on TMZ and other media sites, leading to confusion about whether it's the bus video.

It's not, says Brady Held, CEO of Integral Media Works of Redondo Beach, Calif., which produces re-creation videos of accidents and other catastrophes for use in court.

No one asked them or paid them to produce the Jenner video, he said. It was done in a day and is based on press photographs of the scene before and after the wreck, but not on the bus video, which he hasn't seen either, he said.

The company posted its video on its site and on YouTube, where it was found by TMZ and other media.

"We can't say that's how it went with 100% accuracy, but we talked with experts and can derive a likely scenario from that data," Held said.

But the video would never be allowed in court, he said. "Not in heartbeat, and we wouldn't produce this for court anyway." It was done because there's "high public interest" in the crash, he said.

Contributing: Maria Puente