Trang died in a car accident on September 3, 2001 near San Francisco, California. She and former actress/model Angela Rockwood-Nguyen, to whom Trang was to be a bridesmaid to later that year, were in a car travelling on Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles (they had apparently spent the day searching for suitable dresses for the wedding) when the vehicle she was riding in lost control. It fishtailed violently before it hit the roadside rock face. The car then flipped several times before hitting the safety rail and plunging over the bank. Rockwood-Nguyen survived despite not wearing a seat belt, after being thrown out of the vehicle through a window before its final impact; as a result, however, she is now quadriplegic. Trang, who also wasn't wearing a seat belt, died upon impact.
Her Power Rangers co-stars David Yost and Amy Jo Johnson (with whom she had also remained friends with after Power Rangers), attended the funeral (for which Johnson wrote an eulogy), a traditional Buddhist ceremony, held on September 10 at the Peek Family Funeral Home in Westminster, California. Saban dedicated a Power Rangers: Time Force episode, Circuit Unsure, in her memory.