YouTube star Andre Beadles dies at the age of 25 after a high-speed car crash

YouTube star Andre Beadle has died after “losing control” of his car on the Nassau Expressway in Queens, New York, police said. He was 25.

Beadle, the internet personality who went by the screen name 1Stockf30, was allegedly traveling eastbound “at a high rate of speed” in his 2023 BMW Sedan on Wednesday (Nov. 6) when he “turned right” and traveled “off the right side of the roadway in the right shoulder” and hit “a metal pole,” New York police said People.

“This caused the vehicle to swerve back across the eastbound lanes onto the left shoulder, ejecting the driver from the vehicle,” authorities said.

Officers responded to the scene around 1:12 a.m., along with paramedics, who transported Beadle to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The Highway District Collision Investigation Squad is still investigating the crash.

Beadle, who had amassed 59,500 subscribers on YouTube and nearly 250,000 followers on Instagram, regularly posted videos about street racing and his vehicles.

In a recent YouTube video titled “I’m Bringing the M240 Back to the Street + Trackhawk vs 1Stock Corvette $10,000 Race,” shared days before his death, the influencer gave fans a look at his BMW being worked on in an auto shop to prepare for an upcoming race.

The video showed a clip of Beadle testing the car at a location near where the fatal accident occurred.

Some of his videos, posted in collaboration with other popular street racers, included disclaimers, stating: “All stunts performed in this video were done by professionals and we do not allow replication, in whole or in part. Follow the highway code and drive carefully.”

In one video Uploaded in June, Beadle said he crashed his BMW “at 170 miles per hour.”

Fans are invited to gather at Haffen Park on Friday (November 8) at 4.30pm for a balloon release. “Bring some balloons and come celebrate life with the young legend and trendsetter,” read an Instagram post shared on his profile on Wednesday.

In the post, Beadle was described as “driven by passion” and “fueled by excitement.” “May you find the ultimate song among the stars,” it added.