Video footage filmed inside the car LISA ‘LEFT EYE’ LOPES was driving as it crashed, killing the R&B star, has aired in a new documentary on U.S. TV.

The TLC singer, who died aged 30 in the 2002 accident in Honduras, can be seen driving a packed Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) in the film, which was shot by a cameraman sitting next to her in the front passenger seat.

As the occupants casually pass around a Coca-Cola tin box, the car suddenly starts swerving and Lopes begins screaming as the camera turns towards the ditch where the vehicle is about to crash. The screen then goes blank.

Lopes was shooting a documentary about herself when she was killed, which is why a camera operator was in the car at the time of the accident. The macabre footage was screened as part of feature length documentary Last Days Of Left Eye, which aired on VH1 on Saturday).

Director Lauren Lazin, who obtained permission from Lopes’ family to include the crash clip, is certain Lopes would have wanted the film to air.

He says, “She embraced just showing everything. She talks about death in a very different way. I don’t think she was looking forward to it, but she saw it as a transition to another state of being, and I tried to use that in the film.”

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