Shia LaBeouf, 22, won’t be charged for DUI for a July 27th car accident in which his Ford truck flipped over after being broadsided by another vehicle which ran a red light, slamming into him as he took a legal left turn. He was originally arrested on a misdemeanor drunk driving charge, but cops later ruled that he was not at fault for the accident because it was the other driver that had the moving offense that caused the accident.

It’s now been determined that Shia won’t be charged for DUI as there isn’t enough evidence to convict him. He did refuse to take a blood alcohol test though, which means his license will get suspended. There was no mention of that a breathalyser was administered to Shia in any of the reports I could find. Cops did tell the press that he was showing “obvious signs of intoxication” on the scene, but he was also in a very serious accident and had just crushed his hand. It’s possible he was just in shock.

Other eyewitnesses say Shia was acting normally and even insisted on staying to take responsibility fot the accident after the other driver repeatedly told him to flee the scene. The National Enquirer reported a few weeks ago that the other driver was involved in a heated argument with his wife, who was in the car with him, which caused him to run a red light.

Shia currently stars in the thriller Eagle Eye, which opens in the US today, September 26. He is also working on a Transformers sequel, to be released next year.

Shia is definitely a wise ass and he was arrested for drunken behavior at a Walgreens earlier this year. He’s admitted to having a drinking problem and maybe this very serious accident and scare will help him stay on the straight and narrow. He’s poised for super stardom and he shouldn’t blow it by stupidly driving drunk.

Shia is shown at the premiere of Eagle Eye on 9/16/08. He’s hiding his bandaged left hand Credit: Albert L. Ortega/PRPhotos

In a development that everyone saw coming, Isabel Lucas and Adrian Grenier have split up, following her 3am car crash with Shia LaBeouf.

The pair broke up about three weeks ago, right after the accident that left LaBeouf with a crushed hand. “It wasn’t working out,” says a source. “Adrian saw her with Shia and that was kind of it – the crash, their hanging out. He obviously didn’t appreciate it.”

Lucas, 22, was the passenger in LaBeouf’s car. She was treated for minor bumps and bruises at the hospital and released.

Lucas’s rep confirmed to People that the actress “is single.”

People

Adrian ‘didn’t appreciate’ his girlfriend hanging out with her co-star at 3am. That seems to be underplaying it a little. While she could have a reasonable explanation for the outing (“I needed a ride home and Shia’s known for being a responsible driver!”) it’s possibly the way the situation was handled that led to the break up. No ones likes to be confronted and challenged about their actions, and that could have led to arguments that ended the relationship, rather than any actual relationship between Isabel Lucas and Shia LaBeouf.

Of course, they could be shagging up a one handed storm right now.

Shia’s pinkie, that was supposedly at risk of amputation, is the only finger on his injured hand not bandaged. Clearly, it is still well attached in these pictures. Possibly it was going to be attached to replace another injured digit (yes, this does happen) but he seems to have a full set. This is great news, although I was slightly curious to see how a missing finger would affect his career. I think he could be excluded from roles because of it. Unless the role is as a pianist, I don’t really think it matters if he has only 9 digits.

Isabel Lucas and Adrian Grenier are shown on set on 5/7/08. Credit: DAVE/ZFI/bauergriffinonline.com

Shia LaBeouf is reportedly set to lose his left pinky, according to the not-always-accurate Star magazine.

Doctors have told Shia LaBeouf they may have to amputate one of his injured fingers, Star has learned exclusively.

The young star, now working on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is likely to lose the pinky on his left hand, a source on the movie set says.

“Shia called producers yesterday and told them,” the source on the set in Alamogordo, N.M. says. “It’s really thrown the movie into turmoil.”

Shia, 21, mangled his hand when his SUV rolled over twice in a July 27 accident in West Hollywood. He was cited for DUI although cops say they do not believe the accident was his fault.

Star Magazine

I’m not sure what would happen if he lost a finger, in terms of film continuity. Would he wear prosthesis, or could the pinkie be edited in (or out) in post production? I’d like to see it left as it is, and then in dull parts of the film you could look for the missing digit.

Hopefully Shia will be okay, although I think he has bigger issues than a pinkie amputation at the moment. Unless he can prove that he wasn’t drunk driving his career could be going to the same place as his missing finger. His rep seems adamant that he was not drinking and driving, so hopefully this will turn out to be the case.

I went to school with a group of guys who, when meeting them ten years down the track, all had lost at least half a finger doing stupid things. With the exception of the one who was a butcher, who had the full set. They did prove to me that it doesn’t hold them back any, Shia can take heart in the fact that you don’t need a pinkie to lift a beer.

Note by Celebitchy: Shia’s rep has denied this report, telling X17 the story is “an absolute fabrication.”

Shia LaBeouf’s hand injury was pretty significant. Though it was obviously more than a simple broken bone – he was in surgery right after his car crash last Sunday – his lawyer Michael Norris released a statement today saying that his hand was completely crushed when his truck flipped over.

Several stories this week talked about how his injury was being written into the Transformers storyline, but I assumed that was because he’d be in a cast for a really long time. Now I’m wondering if his going to be slightly disfigured or something.

“As you know, Shia was involved in a traffic collision last Sunday. He and his passenger were struck by another vehicle, as Shia was completing a left turn. The force of that impact immediately flipped Shia’s vehicle over, and, as a result, Shia’s left hand was crushed.

Shia underwent four hours of surgery on Sunday and has been recovering since then. His doctors remain hopeful that he will fully recover, but due to extensive surgery and the nature of the injuries, there remains a substantial risk of both infection and other complications.

Shia’s left arm remains fully immobilized from the elbow down, and he will need regular medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work. We are hopeful that this return will be sooner rather than later, and the ‘Transformers 2′ production company has rearranged their shooting schedule to accommodate this injury. We remain very grateful for their understanding.

[From OK! Magazine]

E! noted that before the extent of Shia’s injuries were known (pre-crush, as they put it), Paramount Pictures was saying it’d be about a month before he’d return to work. Presumably it’ll be longer since it’s a much more serious injury.

LaBeouf’s rep wouldn’t confirm reports that he left the hospital yesterday, but it seems that he likely did. Five full days in the hospital is pretty significant for a limb injury. Most of us have had a couple of broken bones over the years, but this sounds a hell of a lot worse.

Transformers director Michael Bay told Access Hollywood he warned Shia to be careful when he got a new motorcycle days before the crash, telling him, “‘If you crash, you put 1,500 people out of work.’” Unfortunately it seems like that happened anyway.

Here’s Shia at the Hot Rod premiere in Hollywood in July 2007. Header of Shia at the “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” premiere in New York City on May 20th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Transformers director Michael Bay is defending the film’s star Shia LaBeouf after his recent arrest for drunk driving. Cops arrested LaBeouf after a pretty serious car crash landed him and his passenger, co-star Isabel Lucas, in the hospital. However it was later determined that the other driver was at fault for running a red light. Lucas’ mother defended Shia earlier this week, and now Michael Bay is also claiming that LaBeouf wasn’t drunk.

In a new interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush airing on Access August 1 and “The Billy Bush Show,” Bay claimed LaBeouf was not under the influence when his green Ford F-150 truck collided with another car in the early hours of Sunday morning. While authorities have claimed in the media that officers believed the actor was drunk when they reached the scene of the accident, Bay said LaBeouf’s arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence will not stick.

“You’re gonna see — that’s gonna go away,” Bay said. “That’s fresh news… He was not drunk. He was drinking hours and hours before.”

In the hours leading up to the crash at the intersection of Fountain and LaBrea, LaBeouf attended a concert at the Los Angeles Troubadour music venue with his “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” co-star Isabel Lucas. A source claimed in Us Weekly the actor was drinking at the event.

“He was dancing around and acting really crazy,” the source claimed to Us. “He kept doing shots of whiskey.”

[From Access Hollywood]

I’ve been pretty confused about how anyone could argue that LaBeouf wasn’t drunk, even if he didn’t cause the crash. He was arrested on DUI charges, so it’s logical to assume he was given a breathalyzer test. After checking over several articles, I have yet to find any mention of a specific blood alcohol level, or any mention of a breathalyzer at all.

A lot of stories say Shia was arrested after exhibiting “visible signs” of intoxication, but one could argue that he might have been in shock and behaving irrationally. So Bay may very well be right, the charges might not stick. We’ll have to wait a bit and see what evidence comes out, but I wouldn’t be completely shocked if charges are thrown out.

Isabel Lucas, the girl by Shia LaBeouf’s side during his car crash at 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, seems to have nothing to say to the press. At least according to her boyfriend, Entourage’s Adrian Grenier. Lucas has done her best to stay out of the spotlight the last few days. She escaped with some head injuries, while LaBeouf had extensive hand surgery. When the press finally caught up with her today, Grenier did all the talking for her.

Transformers star Isabel Lucas stayed mum when asked by photographers Tuesday about being a passenger in Shia LaBeouf’s truck when they crashed early Sunday morning, leading to his DUI arrest.

“She’s okay, we’re good,” boyfriend Adrian Grenier said as he and the actress walked together in L.A.

“This is not the time for an interview,” he added.

Lucas, 23, told the photog: “Thanks for supporting us.”

When asked how LaBeouf, 22, is doing following surgery on his hand Sunday, she nodded.

[From Us Weekly]

TMZ has the video of the encounter, in which one of the people asking questions tells Grenier to let Lucas speak for herself. To his credit, he doesn’t respond or react to the guy, even though it would probably piss off a lot of people. Though Lucas isn’t talking to the press, her mother is, and she’s defending her daughter and Shia (by extension). LaBeouf was given a DUI citation (although he did not cause the crash).

Shia LaBeouf’s co-star Isabel Lucas — who was riding in his truck when it flipped over the weekend — doesn’t think the “Transformers” star was drunk when they crashed.

So says her mother, who tells the Cairns Post in Oz that her daughter “would not get into the car with someone she thought was drink-driving,” said Beatrice Lucas, using the Britism for DUI. Meanwhile, the mom says Isabel is doing well and is “back at work,” unlike Shia, who could be on the bench for as much as a month because of his busted hand.

[From TMZ]

That’s a nice and supportive thing to say about your daughter, and I’m guessing it’s true that most sober people wouldn’t get into a car with someone who was obviously intoxicated. But there’s certainly a chance that if LaBeouf was drinking, Lucas might have been as well. Who knows, it’s mere speculation. It certainly is a logical thing for a parent to say that their child wouldn’t knowingly put themselves in danger, or let someone endanger others.

I do find the whole hanging out with a hot guy who’s not your boyfriend at three in the morning to be a little suspicious. And can’t help but wonder what Adrian Grenier thinks about it.

Here’s Isabel Lucas at the LA premiere of ‘Bra Boys’ on July 4th. Images thanks to WENN.

Shia LaBeouf has been charged with misdemeanor DUI after a car accident early Sunday morning in LA. Cops said he exhibited signs of “obvious intoxication,” but an eyewitness gives a different account of the accident. Brian Perrulli told Access Hollywood (link has automatic sound) that he was heading home from work when he came across the scene. He said Shia was shocked and disoriented after the ordeal but that he didn’t seem drunk to him. According to Perrulli, the driver in the other car repeatedly told Shia to leave the scene, saying ” ‘I never saw you,” but Shia kept asserting that he needed to stay and take responsibility for the accident.

While Shia’s DUI charge remains, cops have ruled that he wasn’t at fault for the accident, in which the other driver ran a red light and Shia was taking a legal left turn, running into him and rolling over in his truck. I guess we know now why the other guy was so eager to tell Shia to take off:

“He was not at fault,” sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Authorities are now fingering the driver of the vehicle hit by LaBeouf’s pickup. The motorist, whose identity has not been disclosed, ran a red light while LaBeouf attempted to make a legal left turn, said Whitmore. LaBeouf instead plowed into the oncoming car.

The other driver was actually cited at the scene for the moving offense that resulted in the rollover of the Indiana Jones star’s ride.

LaBeouf wasn’t responsible for the crash, his DUI count still stands.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Kristin Aloma said the actor “was exhibiting obvious signs of intoxication” and booked him on the misdemeanor charge Sunday morning. According to his booking sheet, the normally lanky actor was listed as carrying 199 pounds on 5-foot-10 frame.

LaBeouf, however, has yet to be arraigned. He was taken by ambulance from the scene to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He remains at the facility recuperating from surgery on his left hand. He is expected to make a full recovery.

[From E! Online]

Given the circumstances Shia will probably get off with a slap on the wrist. Maybe he learned his lesson though and won’t drink and drive again. He might start facing some of his demons too, because it sounds like he’s conflicted about how much he drinks. He told Details Magazine in an interview to be published in their upcoming issue that “I don’t know how to do it [drink] like a gentleman. I don’t know how to have one drink.” He also said that “it’s not something that is conducive to being a role model.” Maybe he’ll release a statement taking responsibility and admitting the massive error he made. It seems like it would be the right thing to do even after it was determined that the accident was caused by the other driver.

Here’s Shia’s car after the accident along with a photo of him at the Indiana Jones premiere on 5/21/08. Credit: WENN

22 year-old up and coming actor Shia Labeouf received a misdemeanor DUI charge after an accident in Hollywood early Sunday morning. His Ford truck rolled over when he was hit by another vehicle while making a left turn at a light. Luckily Shia’s passenger and the driver of the other vehicle both escaped with only minor injuries. Shia hurt his left hand badly, though, and had to have “extensive surgery” to repair the damage.

Details Magazine has an upcoming cover and interview with Shia, and he admitted ahead of his DUI arrest that he had a drinking problem. Shia seemed to be aware that he needed to quit, and said that no “iconic actors… have problems like that.”

Peter Rubin sat down with Shia LaBeouf in May of 2008 to discuss the young star’s rise to fame for the September 2008 issue of Details. Below is an excerpt from Shia’s cover story for Details:

The script rarely gets away from LaBeouf. It got away from him in Chicago last November, when a late-night nicotine jones ended in that trespassing charge. (”It was two hotheads,” he says, “one completely in the wrong, one who wasn’t enjoying his job that night, going at it about minuscule bullshit.”) And the glee with which the mainstream news media, itching for a YOUNG ACTOR FLAMES OUT headline, seized on it led to the end of one of his and his father’s longtime bonding rituals. “We would drink together and smoke together,” LaBeouf says, “and it’s just a bad deal. It’s not something that is conducive to being a role model—no iconic actors that I know of have problems like that. And I don’t know how to do it like a gentleman. I don’t know how to have one drink.”

[From Men.Style.com]

There’s a lot at stake for Shia, and he realized ahead of his DUI that he needs to change if he wants to embrace the success he’s had in life. Maybe this will be the wake up call he needs.

Shia’s dad lives in his garage when it’s warm and he’s a former drug dealer and who turned his life around and became Shia’s manager when he needed an on-set guardian at 12. It doesn’t sound like he’s a good influence on Shia, and if addiction problems run in his family like there’s even more reason that he should seek treatment. I see a stint in rehab in his future.

Adrian Grenier and Isabel Lucas on 6/4/08. Credit: Tina Gill / PR Photos
Shia LaBeouf’s passenger in his drunken 3am car crash has been revealed - and she’s none other than his Transformers 2 costar, Isabel Lucas, who also happens to be Adrian Grenier’s girlfriend. Fellow actor Grenier is understandably reluctant to comment on the accident, in which his girlfriend escaped with minor head injuries while Shia underwent “extensive hand surgery” at Cedars Sinai due to damage to his left hand. Shia was taking a left at a light when he was broadsided by another vehicle, flipping his Ford F150 truck over. The person in the other vehicle was also taken to the hospital but sustained only minor injuries. Police said Shia was “visibly intoxicated” at the scene, and he has been charged with a misdemeanor due to the fact that no one was seriously injured.

Who was Shia LeBeouf’s mystery passenger in his weekend DUI crash? Aussie actress Isabel Lucas, his co-star in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the sequel to last summer’s blockbuster.

Sources say Lucas was riding shotgun with LaBeouf when he made a left turn on a red light and got broadsided in his Ford F150 around 2:45 Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

The actor suffered hand injuries and was arrested for drunk driving. Lucas was admitted to Cedars-Sinai hospital for “minor head injuries” and later released. A rep for the film said that Lucas is fine and back on set filming.

But the perky blonde is about to have another headache.

We hear her boyfriend Adrian Grenier, who she began dating in February, is none too happy that his ladyfriend was partying with her handsome costar at 3 a.m.

Grenier was testy when we asked him how Lucas was feeling post-crash, and refused to comment.

The two began dating after bonding over environmental issues. Lucas will star in Grenier’s upcoming series “Alter Eco,” which he produced for the cable channel Planet Green.

[From NY Daily News]

There was a lot of dumb luck involved in this accident in that Shia was driving a pretty solid car and people escaped relatively unharmed. If anything should take a hit it’s Shia’s rising career - unless he quickly steps up to the plate and admits that he was wrong and takes full responsibility for his actions. Mischa Barton isn’t my favorite actress, but I like the way she handled her DUI by admitting guilt. It’s an idiotic thing to drive drunk and these stars need to grovel to the public afterwards and seem sincere about it. Don’t be arrogant about driving wasted - that’s how you got in that mess in the first place.

Isabel Lucas is shown campaigning to stop the slaughter of whales in Japan in December, 2007. Credit: INCO/Fame Pictures

22 year-old Indiana Jones actor Shia LaBeouf’s former run-ins with the law were minor incidents which could be chalked up to youthful indiscretions. He was arrested for a drunken stand-down in a Walgreens with a security guard who made fun of him for purchasing Clearasil in November of last year. Shia was staying at a nearby hotel and was not driving at the time. The charges were ultimately dropped. He talked about the incident on David Letterman and he told the story with bravado, once flipping off Letterman when he asked him why he had changed to return to the store.

Shia was also ticketed for smoking outside in Burbank, California. An arrest warrant was issued in March after he failed to turn up for a hearing to address the charges, but his lawyer showed up the next day to plead guilty for him and Shia got off with a $500 fine.

In June a video was leaked that showed a drunken Shia telling a fellow party-goer to slap him while he egged him on by calling him a f*ggot. Shia issued a statement that he never should have used the word and apologized for it. He said it was an old video that was not meant to be made public. In my commentary at the time I mentioned that he’s 22 and at that point he had only minor offenses which seem relatively tame.

There are very few details about Shia’s latest arrest but it sounds like he was driving wasted and could easily have killed someone. TMZ reports that he was arrested for DUI after a drunken car accident. Both Shia and his accident victim were taken to the hospital and there’s no word if anyone was seriously injured:

TMZ has learned Shia LaBeouf has been arrested for DUI.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ LaBeouf was involved in a car accident at about 3:00 AM at the corner of LaBrea and Fountain in Hollywood. Paramedics were called to the scene and both parties were taken to a local hospital.

LaBeouf was placed under arrest on suspicion of felony DUI after we’re told he exhibited “outward signs” of intoxication at the scene.

[From TMZ]

Shia is arrogant and young, but maybe this arrest and accident will be a wake up call for him and he’ll start taking more responsibility for his action. There’s no excuse for driving drunk and with all the resources these young stars have you think they would know better. Of course they’re going to let loose and maybe they’ll smoke in a few places where it’s illegal or act stupid in public. Driving drunk is an entirely different matter, though, and it should never be seen a minor offense or somehow a “right of passage.” Innocent people can so easily be killed.

We’ll have to see what happened exactly and hopefully all the injuries are minor.

Update: Shia needs surgery on his hand. All other victim injuries are minor
TMZ has more details, and Shia has injured his hand and needs surgery. He had a passenger in his car who has a minor head injury and the driver of the other vehicle also sustained minor injuries. The police are still determining the level of the charges:

Law enforcement sources tell us Shia LaBeouf badly injured his hand and will need surgery.

As we first reported, LaBeouf was arrested this morning on suspicion of felony DUI after he allegedly made an illegal left, striking another car which then caused Shia’s car to roll.

We’re told Shia will need surgery on his left hand. A passenger in Shia’s car sustained minor head injuries and the driver of the other car sustained minor injuries as well.

Deputies are evaluating the case at the hospital right now to determine if LaBeouf will be booked on felony or misdemeanor DUI.

We’re told Shia will be in the hospital “for a while.” We could not get more specifics.

[From TMZ]

Shia LaBeouf is shown on 5/18/08 at a press conference for Indiana Jones at Cannes. Credit: Fame Pictures