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Reports: Mia Farrow's son dies after car accident

Actress Mia Farrow's son Thaddeus Wilk Farrow has died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Danbury, Conn., according to news reports.

<p><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Actress Mia Farrow (L) and her adopted son Thaddeus, whos suffers from polio (C), talk with media mogul Ted Turner (R) before a United Nations conference on the eradication of polio in New York, New York 27 September, 2000. </span></p>

Actress Mia Farrow's son Thaddeus Wilk Farrow has died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Danbury, Conn., according to news reports.

The Hartford Courant reported that Farrow, 27, was found gravely injured in his car at 12:45 p.m. ET Wednesday suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was taken to Danbury Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m., People confirmed with police.

Police told the newspaper there was "no criminal aspect" to the death.

USA TODAY has reached out to Farrow family representatives seeking confirmation.

Thaddeus was a paraplegic and polio survivor. Mia Farrow adopted Thaddeus from an orphanage in Calcutta, India, in 1994. A November 2013 Vanity Fair profile of Mia Farrow and her 14 adopted and biological children described Thaddeus as a car mechanic studying to become a police officer.

The profile explained how Thaddeus had been left in a railway station as a child in Calcutta and forced to crawl on his hands and stubs of legs to beg for food.

Thaddeus' condition improved by the time of the Vanity Fair profile.

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