Salma Hayek only has one brother, Sami, whom she recently described to as “the best brother on earth” due to their close bond.

Hence, it was surely a very worrying time when the actress found out that he had been involved in a fatal vehicle accident in 2014.

Sami, who has his own furniture design business, was immediately transported to the hospital after a pickup truck collided with the car he was operating.

Unfortunately, his partner, Grammy-winning creative director Ian Cuttler Sala, died at the scene after suffering severe blunt force injuries in the collision.

Sami was treated for many broken ribs and facial injuries at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The pickup’s 20-year-old driver, Alvin Javier Gomez, was also taken to the hospital for body aches and a broken foot.

The $165,000 2005 Ford GT sports car Sami was driving, which belonged to Salma and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, had a technical issue, according to Sami, who claimed this in legal documents he filed to sue Ford in 2016.

Sami claimed to TMZ at the time that the car’s transaxle experienced a “catastrophic failure,” transferring excessive power to one of the rear wheels and causing the car to crash into oncoming traffic.

Sami purportedly asserted in the lawsuit that Ford was aware of the “need to perform a recall” because comparable incidents to his crash had been documented in the past.

According to Lt. Andrew Neiman of the Los Angeles Police Department, there was no indication that drugs or alcohol had been consumed before to the crash.

But he did admit that Sami might have been driving too quickly, which might have caused him to lose control of the potent vehicle.

“There was a breakdown of control that sent him fishtailing,” he claimed at the time. “Too much speed on a curvy path, tried to over-correct and sadly crossed into opposing lanes,” Sgt. Stephanie Krajchir added to KTLA after the crash.

Sami’s grievance against Ford and the investigation’s findings don’t appear to have been made public.