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May 31
'11
Snooki crashes into her police escort in Italy, sends two cops to hospital

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Unlike the time she was escorted off the boardwalk for being so drunk she couldn’t stand, Snooki was supposedly sober when she crashed her car so hard into a police escort car in Florence, Italy that the two officers had to be taken to the hospital on stretchers. At least that’s according to some reports.

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TMZ doesn’t mention the cops needing to be hospitalized at all and are saying that “no one was injured.” It sounds much more serious than that, and like MTV brass are trying to play it down. People Magazine has the news that the cops were taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries. Radar’s story backs up that version of events, with the detail that the officers had to be transported on stretchers.

Reality got a little too real Monday for Jersey Shore’s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.

She crashed into a police car in Florence, Italy, sending two officers to the hospital!

The MTV star was driving with Deena Cortese in the passenger seat and a member of the show’s production team in the back, when she struck the official vehicle, wedging her car between the police car and a wall.

And here’s the kicker — the car she hit was their official police escort!

The two officers in the car The Snookster hit were put on stretchers with their necks stabilized, and taken to Coreggi hospital, to be treated for bruises and possible whiplash.

Authorities were quick to say that alcohol was not involved, and RadarOnline.com has confirmed that the girls were not arrested as has been erroneously reported elsewhere.

Snooki and Deena were taken to a nearby police station to fill out an accident report.

[From Radar]

You wonder if anything will happen to Snooki and if this will affect filming of Jersey Shore in Italy, where that troop of entitled drunken brats aren’t wanted anyway. For one thing I doubt they’ll get a police escort again, and hopefully they’ll keep Snooki from driving. She was cited less than a year ago for not being able to walk straight and a bunch of geniuses at MTV are letting her drive in a foreign country.

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Snooki is shown out in Italy on 5/25 (ugly boots and ridiculous dress with a pink leopard bow on her head), 5/26 (delivering pizza) and on 5/30/11 with Deena (furry Uggs). Radar Online has photos of the accident. Credit: WENN.com

Posted in Car accidents, Jersey Shore, Photos, Snooki

Written by Celebitchy         33 Comments »
Sep 4
'10
The “Lindsay Lohan clipped a baby” story gets more complicated

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These are some new photos of Lindsay Lohan making a paparazzi-friendly visit to a movie theatre last night. Isn’t this what everyone does? Wander around pantless, wearing sunglasses, and head to the movie theatre after calling the paparazzi? At night? Right? And maybe on the way to the theatre, you can hit a few babies. Speaking of, we have some addendums to the “Lindsay Lohan hit a baby while driving like a crackhead in her Maserati” story. Radar’s initial story yesterday had Lindsay being too cracked-out to look both ways before turning on a red, then hitting a baby in a stroller before driving off without even getting out of her Maserati. Then, later Friday, TMZ put up their version of what happened:

An eyewitness to the alleged Lindsay Lohan “hit-and-run” tells TMZ … the photogs who sold the after-the-fact video are lying. The eyewitness — a photographer — says Lindsay was leaving her apartment building Wednesday (not yesterday) and was turning onto Holloway Drive with a green light. The photog says Lindsay “ever-so-slightly tapped the stroller — like 1 mile an hour.”

The photog says Lindsay pulled over, asked the nanny pushing the stroller if everything was okay and was told everyone and everything was fine, so she drove off.

The story conflicts with the photogs who shot video after the incident. One of them — Brayan Jaime — told TMZ … Lindsay ran a red light and called the impact “a major hit” … causing 3 wheels on the stroller to leave the ground. Jaime says Lindsay fled the scene.

So far … no one has gone to the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Department to file a report.

[From TMZ]

So when Lindsay told Radar “I have no idea what you’re talking about” she was IN FACT LYING?!?!? You don’t say. So Lindsay knew exactly what Radar was talking about and now she and Mother Crackhead Dina are sitting around, thinking up fun stories for TMZ to print. Notice that even with TMZ’s flourishes, it doesn’t change the fact that A) Lindsay hit a motherf-cking baby and B) She didn’t even get out of her car to “check” on the baby or the nanny, and instead ended up driving off. Also: I love the inclusion in TMZ’s story that the light was green. Like just because Lindsay might have had the technical right-of-way, that means it’s totally okay that she clipped a baby.

Anyway, Radar one-upped TMZ’s story with yet another one:

Lindsay Lohan ‘saw’ the woman and child crossing the road before she clipped the stroller with her car, according to another eyewitness. After RadarOnline.com first reported that the troubled star had hit the stroller with her high powered car, Lohan denied any knowledge, saying “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

But now, another onlooker has come forward to confirm the event and says Lohan saw the woman and child crossing the road, but did not bother to stop.

“I pulled up next to Lindsay after I saw her knock the stroller,” said Austin Visschedyk, a photographer who was on the scene. “I said; Whoa, what the f*** are you doing?”

Lohan was momentarily speechless, according to Austin, before she replied: “Well, I saw them, but they didn’t move out of the way.”

RadarOnline.com had the exclusive interview with the first eyewitness, Brayan Jaime who described the chain of events.

“There was a woman pushing a kid in the stroller, maybe a two or three-year-old, crossing the street,” he said. “Lindsay took the red light and hit the stroller. It wasn’t super hard, but she made impact and hit them. Lindsay pulled to the right, stopped for two seconds, and then just kept going.”

Despite conflicting reports that Lohan was going a mere one-mile-an-hour when the incident took place, Jaime says she was going substantially faster.

“She was going at least 10-15 miles per hour,” said Jaime. “It wasn’t one mile an hour, that’s for sure.”

In fact, Lohan – who caused the four-wheeled stroller to tip up onto one wheel – even scared a man standing 10 feet away.

“There was a guy standing on the corner who jumped back when it happened,” recalled Austin. “He was clearly scared.”

Lohan was driving the Maserati she picked up the day she was released from rehab. But according to sources, she has now returned the car following the accident which happened Wednesday afternoon.

[From Radar]

Yep. I believe Radar’s sources. Just for that one quote alone, attributed to Lindsay: “Well, I saw them, but they didn’t move out of the way.” That sounds exactly like her, doesn’t it? Those sound like her crack thoughts and her crack words to me. Lindsay makes her own cracked-out right-of-way. Everyone must move to let the crackhead through. Seriously. People of Los Angeles: why are you still driving? You need to stay at home while this crackhead is on the streets. Although it is interesting that she returned the Maserati, isn’t it?

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Lindsay Lohan on Sept. 3, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Posted in Car accidents, Lindsay Lohan

Written by Kaiser         89 Comments »
Sep 3
'10
Lindsay Lohan already hit a baby while driving, says Radar

Actress Lindsay Lohan made her way late last night out for dinner at Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, California on August 28, 2010. Lindsay arrived at her favorite restaurant with a friend around 11pm where she stayed for a few hours leaving at around 1am in the morning on a wild and crazy car ride. The Machete actress took on the roll of designated driver but was not a safe DD according to photographers who followed her outrageous drive from sunset blvd to the Pacific Palisades. Lindsay was reportedly drive at high speeds in her Maserati going about 120, blowing through stop signs and red lights. Finally the cops caught up to her but let her go with out a ticket, the photographers where not so lucky. Lohan was recently released from a court-ordered stint in jail and rehab last week following a violation of her probation stemming from a 2007 DUI conviction.  Fame Pictures, Inc

The Crackhead has her license back, and we‘ve been warning you LA bitches to stay out of her way. Actually, scratch that, I have no idea if she actually has her license back or if she just thinks she’s allowed to drive now, in her crack-addled mind. In the less than two weeks that Lindsay has been out of her jail & rehab, she’s already been stopped by the cops once for failing to stop for a stop sign, and she’s already been back to her crackhead haunts like the Chateau Marmont. So what was next on Lindsay’s agenda? Some typical crack shenanigans – like hitting a baby. Lindsay was ALLEGEDLY driving her fancy Maserati when she was too crackheaded to LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE TURNING ON A RED. And thus, Lindsay hit a stroller that was carrying a baby. Radar has video of what happened afterward – the nanny (I’m assuming) pushing the stroller and the baby crying and people asking the woman if she was okay. And Lindsay’s Maserati driving off in the background. The video is here, and here’s Radar’s report on the incident:

Lindsay Lohan clipped a stroller holding a baby while driving her high-powered Maserati, two eyewitnesses to the incident exclusively tell RadarOnline.com. The two onlookers identified the Mean Girls star in her West Hollywood neighborhood around 5pm Wednesday, when she accidentally hit the woman and child after failing to look both ways before turning.

“There was a woman pushing a kid in the stroller, maybe a two or three-year-old, crossing the street,” witness Brayan Jaime told RadarOnline.com, in an exclusive interview.

“Lindsay took the red light and hit the stroller. It wasn’t super hard, but she made impact and hit them,” Jaime said. “Lindsay pulled to the right, stopped for two seconds, and then just kept going.”

RadarOnline.com has also obtained exclusive video taken just moments after the incident occurred in which Lohan’s luxury Maserati can be seen speeding away. At the same time, the child can be heard crying in the stroller. The woman in the video is seen looking back at Lohan’s car in disbelief as she continues to cross the street.

“I’m 100 per cent sure Lindsay was driving because I saw her with my own eyes,” Jaime told RadarOnline.com. “I asked the kid if she was okay and then asked the woman, but she was kind of shocked and didn’t really know what to say and you could tell she was scared.”

Jaime claims Lohan came out of the parking garage quickly, making only a brief pause at the red light instead of a full stop. A second witness at the scene told RadarOnline.com that the impact was minimal, so it’s possible Lohan didn’t realize it happened. Nonetheless, he insists contact was made.

“She was just driving like crazy once I started following her. She was trying to lose me, blowing stop signs and stuff,” Jaime said, who followed Lohan after being stunned at what he saw. “Lindsay was scared because she knew I saw what she did.”

But the incident doesn’t seem to have registered with Lohan, who was released from a court ordered rehab and jail sentence last month. When contacted for comment, she told RadarOnline.com, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

[From Radar]

A hit and run on a baby. This is terrible. Even if you’re pretty sure that you just “bumped” someone (especially if it’s a stroller carrying a BABY), you get out of your car and ask “Are you okay?” Beyond that, you LOOK BOTH WAYS, CRACKHEAD. Seriously, I hope this is not the end of the story. I hope they track down the nanny and the baby. I hope the cops are called. I hope there are international headlines crying “LOHAN HITS BABY, IS A CRACKHEAD.”

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44259, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Tuesday August 31, 2010. Lindsay Lohan returning home Tuesday night after dining out at Chateau Marmont. Photograph:  David Tonnessen, PacificCoastNews.com

Lindsay Lohan still hasn't seemed to have grasped dressing appropriately for court as she makes her way to an appearance at the Santa Monica, CA courthouse on August 30, 2010. Fame Pictures, Inc

44196, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Monday August 30 2010. Lindsay Lohan gets in some early evening retail therapy with a visit to The Grove in LA. Lindsay shopped unaware that news was breaking about her on/off girlfriend Smanatha Ronson's pet pooch, Cadillac, being involved in a fatal dog attack. Photograph:  David Tonnessen, PacificCoastNews.com

Actress Lindsay Lohan made her way late last night out for dinner at Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, California on August 28, 2010. Lindsay arrived at her favorite restaurant with a friend around 11pm where she stayed for a few hours leaving at around 1am in the morning on a wild and crazy car ride. The Machete actress took on the roll of designated driver but was not a safe DD according to photographers who followed her outrageous drive from sunset blvd to the Pacific Palisades. Lindsay was reportedly drive at high speeds in her Maserati going about 120, blowing through stop signs and red lights. Finally the cops caught up to her but let her go with out a ticket, the photographers where not so lucky. Lohan was recently released from a court-ordered stint in jail and rehab last week following a violation of her probation stemming from a 2007 DUI conviction.  Fame Pictures, Inc

Posted in Babies, Car accidents, Lindsay Lohan

Written by Kaiser         73 Comments »
Aug 16
'10
Mel Gibson was in a bizarre car accident in Malibu last night

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After spending several weeks in Fiji and surrounding islands, Mel Gibson returned to the LA area over the weekend. And then he promptly got into a bizarre car accident. According to reports, Mel was driving his Maserati in Malibu last night, and he basically drove into a “rocky hillside”. The cops are already saying that alcohol wasn’t involved… so… um, I guess it was just a standard car accident?

Mel Gibson acclimated back into L.A. life by getting into a car accident yesterday … this according to law enforcement sources.

Sources tell TMZ it happened at 8:35 PM in Malibu. Gibson, we’re told, lost control of his car and ended up striking the rocky hillside on Malibu Canyon Road.

Gibson was driving a 2008 Maserati, which had to be towed from the scene.

Hours before the crash — photogs shot footage of Gibson driving the Maserati around Malibu.

According to the CHP report, obtained by TMZ, “For unknown reasons, Mr. Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside. He stopped his car at the scene and was contacted by officers from the West Valley CHP Area.”

CHP Public Information Officer Leland Tang tells TMZ … “Gibson told officers in the field he did not know how the car drifted out of the lane and into the hillside.” Tang said his officers followed up by asking Gibson if he was on a cell phone and he said no. Tang adds officers also asked Gibson if he had dozed off “but he did not give a firm ‘yes’ or ‘no’.” Gibson just repeated several times, “I don’t know how the car left the roadway.”

The report goes on, “Mr. Gibson supplied all the pertinent information to the officers at the scene, gave a statement, and received a ride home from a friend.”

Gibson was not hurt. According to the report, “DUI is not suspected in the accident.”

UPDATE: As for the curious statement in the report … “For unknown reasons, Mr. Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside.” Tang tells TMZ his department was in no way trying to insinuate Gibson did it intentionally. Tang says, “It was totally an unintentional act.” And Tang says no citation was issued and no charges will be filed.

[From TMZ]

My conspiracy theorist’s tin foil hat is already on. Was it intentional, like a suicide attempt? Eh. Doubtful, in my mind. Was he drinking or under the influence of something? Perhaps, I tend to think that’s a solid possibility. Was he stone cold sober and simply enraged about something like blow jobs and placenta trees and depositions? Perhaps, another solid possibility. Or was he just sober, in solid mental health, and he just lost control of his fancy sports car? Eh. Theories?

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 1984:  Actor Mel Gibson at the 'Nimrod Theatre' press conference at the Sebel Townshouse Hotel, April 1984 in Sydney, Australia (Photo by Patrick Riviere/Getty Images)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 15: Actor Mel Gibson attends the 59th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 15, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 29:  Actor Mel Gibson arrives at the industry screening of Universal's 'American Gangster' at the ArcLight Theatre October 29, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

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Written by Kaiser         57 Comments »
Dec 17
'09
Peaches Geldof & friends Twitter jokes right before & after serious car crash

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Peaches Geldof is a dimwit and so are the fools she hangs out with. The 20 year-old divorcee and daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates could have easily been killed in a car accident outside Disneyland in California. Peaches went on twitter as a passenger in a car to send a message about how fast her friend was driving with a car full of people. When they got in an accident that could have been fatal to any of the six people in the car or any other driver on the highway, Peaches tweeted that she was with the “DGAF” [Don't give a f-] crew. This is apparently what they called themselves before the accident. Her friend, the driver, took to Twitter to say her foot slipped on the gas pedal and to claim that the accident wasn’t her fault. Luckily no one was hurt, but the kids obviously didn’t learn their lesson and are getting a huge kick out of both the accident and the attention they’re getting. The driver also tweeted “lol @death.” Nice.

She then kept her fans informed: ‘Just actually experienced a full on car carsh (sic) with the IDGAF crew. Wow, I guess we really don’t GAF.’

Peaches refers to her friends as the I Don’t Give A F*** crew.

Peaches Geldof narrowly escaped serious injury after being involved in a ‘full on car crash’ last night.

The socialite was on her way to Disney World in California with four friends when the driver’s foot slipped on the pedals, sending the car out of control and into a 360 degree spin on the freeway.

Only minutes before the 20-year-old had boasted on Twitter that she was: ‘Speeding like I have never, ever witnessed before on the freeway – feel like I’m in a scary car chase video game.’

She quoted her female friend, who had been driving the car, as saying: ‘I was just trying to get us all to Disney on f****** time!

‘My creeper slipped on the pedals! Its not my fault!’

The driver then Twittered that she had ‘almost killed’ Peaches and her three other passengers.

But it appeared that despite her joking tone, Peaches had been left upset by the accident.

She Twittered: ‘Honestly can’t believe were alive after that.

‘And that the front of the car is totally f***** up and yet were still carrying on to Disney!?’

Another friend in the car, A J English, posted a photo of the damaged vehicle, which had a crushed bonnet and smashed bumper.

‘This is all that happened after a full 360 across three lanes of freeway traffic!?’ he wrote.

Another passenger added that ‘the front of the car is all mangled and smoking maybe we can use it as a barbie?’

The driver also seemed surprised that they had escaped unharmed, Tweeting: ‘Lol @ death.’

[From The Daily Mail]

To keep us further informed about what a careless twit she is, Peaches posted photos of her “IDAF” crew at Disneyland afterwards. One of her “IDGAF” friends posted the picture below of the wrecked car. The driver, who goes by the name “The Death Queen” on Twitter, is posting crap like “I’m on my way to becoming a famous murderer” and “How can I outdeath myself?” Meanwhile Peaches and her friends are marveling at the fact that “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo was playing on the radio when they got in the accident. What would they have tweeted if someone died? “OMG we really GAF now, @DeathQueen died!”

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Here are some pictures of Peaches outside clubs in Hollywood on 12/15 and 12/16. In case you don’t know who she is… nevermind you’re better off. Credit: WENN.com

Posted in Car accidents, Peaches Geldof, Stupid

Written by Celebitchy         28 Comments »
Oct 27
'09
Brad Pitt trades in his newsboy cap for a fedora

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Because it’s a slow gossip day, let’s enjoy looking at some new Brad Pitt pictures. Brad was hanging out in Studio City, California yesterday, fresh off of his weekend motorcycle accident. Brad’s so monochromatic. I told you guys! After I saw pictures of Suri Cruise all in red, I knew monochromatic would be making a comeback, and here we are. Brad in shades of gray. I think he looks pretty hot, but I want to note two things. First, I think Brad carries his wallet in his front pocket (note the square bulge in his front pocket)… probably so we can see his cute ass. Secondly, he’s not wearing a newsboy cap! Instead, he’s wearing some kind of … fedora? Is he Dick Tracy? Is he investigating The Case of the Missing Newsboy Cap?

As for his scruff, I actually think he trimmed it. It was looking totally wild a few weeks ago, and it looks more controlled now. I find that for most women, it doesn’t even matter about the guy, they already know if they like scruff or beards or goatees or whatever. I know that I’m completely open to it. The first guy I ever loved had a very fussy little goatee, and since then, I’ve always loved facial hair. While I wish Brad would really trim the front part of his beard, I like the scruff generally.

Back to Brad’s weekend accident. While the initial reports had a paparazzo maybe causing the accident, Radar put up a compelling video of the incident, and I can say in good faith that the accident was entirely Brad’s own fault. He was trying to ride between a row of parked cars and a row of cars waiting at a stop light. He clips one of the parked cars, and he goes down. He looks pretty dumb doing it too. So what was with all of the reporting that a paparazzo cut him off or whatever? Weird. It seems after that little incident, Brad has upgraded to a Camaro SS (photos of the car here and here). The Camaro looks pretty bitchin’. If we were living in 1976. Or whenever Dick Tracy lived!

Here’s Brad in Studio City yesterday afternoon. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Posted in Brad Pitt, Car accidents, Fashion

Written by Kaiser         52 Comments »
Dec 1
'08
Brandon Davis staggers out of liquor store and crashes into Pink’s car

Legendary douchbag useless partier Brandon “Greasy Bear” Davis made a major fool out of himself last night. After partying at the Viper Room – and wearing quite the little outfit, no less – Davis left the club doing the usual paparazzi scamper. You know, something along the lines of “Go away, please leave me alone, I don’t want to talk… hey don’t leave me! What’s wrong with you? What if I make a scene, will you care now?” The guy should be pretty happy the paps even know who he is – though admittedly he’s never gotten a word of good press.

Last night won’t change that – Davis smashed into Pink’s car while backing out of his parking space. Even though he was going pretty slowly, there was a huge dent in the SUV.

Brandon Davis, allegedly drunk, walked out of a liquor store at 1am on Monday morning after a night of partying at the Viper Room. The Mercedes driving socialite backed into an BMW SUV belonging to Pink while trying to leave the parking lot. After a brief meeting with Pink, both parties drove off of the premises. I’m sure Brandon is glad no cops showed up.

[From Hollywood TV]

It’s hard to tell if Brandon was drunk or just tired. To his credit, at least he didn’t pull a Britney Spears: hitting a parked car in front of the paparazzi and then waltzing away. He went back inside the club and found Pink. It’s sort of sad when the best thing you can say about a person is “At least they’re not as bad as ____.”

Here’s video of the incident. I’m fairly certain the grease from Brandon’s hair somehow factored into the crash. Maybe some dripped onto the ground when he was walking to his car, making it impossible for him to brake.

Here’s Brandon Davis looking mournful outside Crown Lounge in Los Angeles on November 5th. Images thanks to WENN.

Posted in Brandon Davis, Car accidents, Nightclubs

Written by JayBird         26 Comments »
Aug 5
'08
Morgan Freeman doing well after surgery

By all reports Morgan Freeman is doing significantly better than hoped after his serious car accident late Sunday evening. The final assessment of his injuries is that he has a broken elbow, broken arm, and some sort of “shoulder damage,” according to his rep. Considering he was in a rollover accident, it sounds like he got pretty lucky.

Morgan Freeman is on the mend after a Sunday night car crash that resulted in his being airlifted to a hospital in Memphis.

“Morgan is doing well after his surgery last night to reconnect nerves and repair damage in his left arm and hand,” his spokesperson, Donna Lee, said in a statement Tuesday.

“The surgery last night lasted four and a half hours. He’s visiting with family this morning. As of this morning he’s up and walking around and looking forward to his release in a few days.”

Freeman, 71, was driving in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie County when the accident occurred. Extracted from the wreck by emergency crews using the jaws of life, the Dark Knight actor was said to be “in good spirits” Monday after he reached the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, where his surgery took place.

[From People]

Despite initial reports that Freeman might have fallen asleep at the wheel, it’s now being speculated that heavy rain caused the accident. According to someone who lives near the accident scene, the car skidded on the slick road and flipped multiple times, before landing upright in a ditch that had at least eight inches of water.

There were also gardening tools, recipes, herbs, and spices scattered around the accident scene. The neighbor also said that Freeman was initially unconscious but came to very quickly and was talking to emergency personnel. It sounds like he should be okay and out of the hospital relatively quickly.

Here’s Morgan Freeman with Jack Nicholson at the premiere of “The Bucket List” in Paris on July 17th. Images thanks to Fame.

Posted in Car accidents, Hospitalizations, Injuries, Morgan Freeman, Photos, Surgery

Written by JayBird         12 Comments »
Aug 4
'08
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash (update: sitting up & talking in hosp.)

Morgan Freeman was in a very serious car accident last night. According to several media outlets, the 71 year-old Dark Knight actor crashed his 1997 Nissan Maxima on Highway 32 in Mississippi. TMZ and the Memphis CBS affiliate station both are reporting that Freeman may have fallen asleep at the wheel. Though he was conscious and able to talk to state troopers after the accident, Freeman had to be airlifted to a hospital one hundred miles away and is said to be in serious condition.

Morgan Freeman just had the darkest night of his life. The Oscar-winning Batman sidekick is listed in serious condition in a Memphis hospital following a Sunday night car accident, says hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Ben Williams told Memphis’ NBC affiliate that Freeman and an unidentified female passenger were heading east on Mississippi Highway 32 when his vehicle went off the road. Freeman then overcorrected the vehicle, causing his 1997 Nissan Maxima to flip several times before coming to a rest.

Mediatakeout.com was first to report the smashup, which occurred around 11:30 p.m. just outside the town of Ruleville, Miss. Freeman was airlifted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, but apparently was coherent enough to talk to state troopers at the scene.

There was no immediate comment from the actor’s representatives, though CBS’ Memphis affiliate, WREG, reported that Freeman may have fallen asleep at the wheel. Emergency crews responding to the scene reportedly used the jaws of life to free both Freeman and his female passenger from the vehicle. Both were airlifted to the hospital, nicknamed The Med, though there’s no word on the condition of the female passenger.

[From E! News]

A few reports have noted that Freeman’s passenger was a female, and then mention that he’s married, which sounds to me like they’re trying to imply something ridiculous and tacky. It doesn’t seem that the passenger was Freeman’s wife, or that would have been reported by now.

A spokesperson at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis said Freeman is in serious condition. TMZ is also reporting that he broke several ribs and injured his knee – but that his passenger is generally okay, aside from having to be cut out of the vehicle with the jaws of life. They’re both in our thoughts.

Update by Celebitchy: According to a friend of Freeman’s quoted in The Guardian, Freeman was sitting up and talking in the hospital. He was also conscious and talking to rescuers at the crash scene. Drugs and/or alcohol are not thought to have been a factor in the crash:

Williams said the car Freeman had been driving belonged to Demaris Meyer, of Memphis. The car left a rural highway and overturned several times. “There’s no indication that either alcohol or drugs were involved,” Williams said.

There was still no information on Ms Meyer’s condition, he added.

Bill Luckett, a friend of the actor and co-owner of Freeman’s restaurant, Madidi, said he was sitting up and talking at the hospital.

[From Guardian.co.uk]

Update 2: Freeman’s rep says he’s in “good spirits” in the hospital and that he will have surgery for a broken arm, elbow and “shoulder damage.” He is expected to make a full recovery:

“He has a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage but he is in good spirits,” said Donna Lee. “He is going to have surgery this afternoon or tomorrow to correct the damage. He says he’ll be okay and is looking forward to a full recovery.”

[From People]

Here are file photos of Morgan Freeman. Credit: WENN

Posted in Car accidents, Hospitalizations, Morgan Freeman

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Jul 23
'08
Lynne Spears accidentally ran over and killed a boy in 1975

The National Enquirer reports that in 1975 Lynne Spears ran over a 12-year-old boy and killed him. Lynne, then 20, was rushing to the hospital with her brother, who had some kind of unspecified injury. According to the Enquirer, the guilt still haunts Lynne and she generally refuses to talk about it.

The ENQUIRER exclusively reveals Britney Spears’ mom Lynne is hiding a shocking secret tragedy. The mother of the pop star ran over a bike-riding young boy with her car and killed him! The accident occurred in 1975, and Lynne Spears is still haunted by the death of the 12-year-old boy.

“To this day, Lynne hasn’t gotten over what she did. She gets that terrified look in her eye when she is thinking about it,” said a source close to the Spears family.

“She has told only a few people about the accident and always says, ‘Please don’t think I’m a bad person.’” Lynne was 20 when the tragedy occurred in her hometown of Kentwood, La., during the same year she married Jamie Spears. When the accident happened, Britney’s mom was driving her brother to the hospital after he’d suffered an injury.

“It bothers Lynne still to this day,” said a representative for Lynne Spears. “She really doesn’t like to talk about it. She just wanted to forget that it ever happened – but she can’t.”

[From the National Enquirer]

What an incredibly sad story, and how incredibly tragic for the boy’s family. When I was five my best friend’s dad accidentally ran him over when he was playing in the driveway. He managed to live but was in a full body cast for over a year. Even as a little kid, I remember being overwhelmed by how obviously grief-stricken and inconsolable his father was. I can’t even imagine what it must feel like to know you caused the death of a child.

Unfortunately Lynn Spears has a good deal of company when it comes to famous people involved in severe car crashes. Actress Rebecca Gayheart (wife of Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. McSteamy, Eric Dane) killed nine-year-old Jorge Cruz Jr. in 2001 when she was driving. Wikipedia notes that, “several cars stopped to let him go, [but] Gayheart swerved around them and into a two-way left-turn lane, striking the boy.” Apparently Gayheart was busy talking on her cell phone and couldn’t wait.

In 2000 Halle Berry was involved in a hit-and-run which resulted in back injuries to her victim. She was sued and performed community service. Singer/actress Brandy caused a major pileup on an L.A. freeway in December of 2006 which killed a woman – charges were never filed.

Prison Break actor Lane Garrison got into a drunken car crash in 2007 that resulted in the death of one of his 17-year-old passengers. He was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving and sentenced to 40 months in prison. And Matthew Broderick got into a car accident in 1987 while in Ireland with then-girlfriend Jennifer Grey, which resulted in the death of two women. He wasn’t charged with a crime but did have to pay the victims’ families $175.

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