Re: Morgan Freeman in serious condition after car accident.
Here's an article I found about it. Seems like he's going to be fine.
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4643844a1860.html
Here's an article I found about it. Seems like he's going to be fine.
Freeman to make 'full recovery' after crash
Reuters | Tuesday, 05 August 2008
Morgan Freeman is in hospital with a broken arm and other injuries after the car he was driving swerved off a rural highway and rolled several times, but the Oscar winner is expected to make a full recovery.
Freeman, 71, was airlifted late on Sunday night to a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital, about 160 kilometres from the accident scene, which is near a home he keeps in Charleston, Mississippi.
A spokeswoman at Regional Medical Center in Memphis said Freeman was in serious condition but gave no further details.
Freeman's injuries included a broken arm, a broken elbow and "minor shoulder damage," but the actor "was in good spirits when I spoke with him a short time ago" at the hospital trauma center in Memphis, his publicist, Donna Lee, said.
She said he would undergo surgery later in the day or on Tuesday "to help correct the damage".
She added: "He says he'll be okay and is looking forward to a full recovery."
From the direction Freeman was traveling when he lost control of the car, he appeared to be headed toward his home, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sergeant Ben Williams said.
"The vehicle went off the edge of the road and flipped several times," Williams said. No other car was involved in the accident.
Williams said it was "possible" that Freeman, who co-stars in the current blockbuster Batman movie The Dark Knight, had fallen asleep at the wheel, but he added that authorities had ruled out alcohol as a factor in the wreck.
Freeman was conscious and talking to officers afterward, Williams said, adding that no citation had been issued in the accident.
Both Freeman and a female passenger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were wearing seat belts, but the air bags did not deploy in the 1997 Nissan Maxima registered to Meyer, Williams said.
He said he did not know the extent of her injuries.
Asked about her condition and relationship to Freeman, Lee said she had no information on Meyer "as my focus has been on Morgan's condition," but she described Meyer and Freeman as friends.
Freeman was born in Memphis but spent much of his childhood in Mississippi and has opened a music club in the state.
Freeman won an Oscar in 2005 for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's boxing drama Million Dollar Baby.
He also earned Oscar nominations for his work in the films Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption.
Reuters | Tuesday, 05 August 2008
Morgan Freeman is in hospital with a broken arm and other injuries after the car he was driving swerved off a rural highway and rolled several times, but the Oscar winner is expected to make a full recovery.
Freeman, 71, was airlifted late on Sunday night to a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital, about 160 kilometres from the accident scene, which is near a home he keeps in Charleston, Mississippi.
A spokeswoman at Regional Medical Center in Memphis said Freeman was in serious condition but gave no further details.
Freeman's injuries included a broken arm, a broken elbow and "minor shoulder damage," but the actor "was in good spirits when I spoke with him a short time ago" at the hospital trauma center in Memphis, his publicist, Donna Lee, said.
She said he would undergo surgery later in the day or on Tuesday "to help correct the damage".
She added: "He says he'll be okay and is looking forward to a full recovery."
From the direction Freeman was traveling when he lost control of the car, he appeared to be headed toward his home, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sergeant Ben Williams said.
"The vehicle went off the edge of the road and flipped several times," Williams said. No other car was involved in the accident.
Williams said it was "possible" that Freeman, who co-stars in the current blockbuster Batman movie The Dark Knight, had fallen asleep at the wheel, but he added that authorities had ruled out alcohol as a factor in the wreck.
Freeman was conscious and talking to officers afterward, Williams said, adding that no citation had been issued in the accident.
Both Freeman and a female passenger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were wearing seat belts, but the air bags did not deploy in the 1997 Nissan Maxima registered to Meyer, Williams said.
He said he did not know the extent of her injuries.
Asked about her condition and relationship to Freeman, Lee said she had no information on Meyer "as my focus has been on Morgan's condition," but she described Meyer and Freeman as friends.
Freeman was born in Memphis but spent much of his childhood in Mississippi and has opened a music club in the state.
Freeman won an Oscar in 2005 for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's boxing drama Million Dollar Baby.
He also earned Oscar nominations for his work in the films Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption.
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