I was awake and following this when it was just breaking by TMZ. Ironically, one of those boilerplate sites had a death hoax up about him last week, which was subsequently shot down by his spokespeople. At first, TMZ was the only one reporting this, with a poorly written article, at that. Everyone else reporting it was citing the TMZ article, so with the hoax last week, it was pretty confusing on if this was really true or not. Sadly, it turned out to be real. Like Heath Ledger, this was just one of those Hollywood types whose death really catches you by surprise because there were no precipitating indicators. From what I understand, he just recently got full custody of his daughter and moved her in with him, as well, as a single parent. I can't speak as to if he was a good person in life, but I never heard anything bad about him. Terrible news all the way around.
No news or even a byline in reference to who the driver was, but that's another life lost, too. I can only imagine what it was like for those responders once they got the fire out. Hopefully death was quick for both in the car. Very sad...