Early this morning or late last night Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a single car accident. He had a female passenger in the car. The 97 Nissan Maxima also belonged to her. They doors of the car had to be pryed open by paramedics with the jaws of life. Which indicates it was a pretty serious wreck. He was airlifted to the Med, where he is listed in serious condition. Last I heard the only injuries she received were minor cuts and scrapes.My main concern would be for him and his passengers speedy recovery. Little did I know my Sunday school lesson would come into play. " Be quick to listen and slow to speak." For obvious reasons . One has to use restraints not to ask certain questions. For now we're just wishing them a speedy recovery.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/aug/04/actor-morgan-freeman-injured-miss-car-wreck/
I'm glad the news finally told the whole story. Rather than let the rumors continue to circulate.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Freeman had another young lady in the car when he had the accident. She also probably was his girlfriend. If it makes any difference. He and his wife are no longer together. Him and his wife of twenty -five years are in the midst of a divorce.
Technically he's still married, but he is by himself. My wife thinks another woman may have been the reason. There might be some truth to those rumors.
Freeman said woman in crash is a friend
ReplyDeletePublished: 8/6/08, 10:25 PM EDT
By HOLBROOK MOHR
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The woman who was injured along with Morgan Freeman in a weekend car accident apparently is a friend of the Oscar-winning actor who had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says.
Freeman, 71, was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima that authorities said belongs to Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., when the car veered off a rural road Sunday night a few miles from Freeman's home in the Mississippi Delta. The car flipped at least twice.
Bill Rogers, a retired police officer who was the first person to arrive at the scene, said a dazed Freeman told him that he and Meyer were headed to his home in Charleston, a small town some 90 miles south of Memphis.
"He said that she had offered him a ride home; that they were friends and she had offered him a ride home and she didn't really know the way and so he was going to drive the vehicle," Rogers said Tuesday, recalling a conversation he had with the actor.
Freeman's friend and business partner, Bill Luckett, has told the Commercial Appeal newspaper that Meyer is the actor's friend.
Rogers said he talked to Freeman and Meyer in attempt to keep them conscious - something he was trained to do as a police officer.
"They said they were coming from Clarksdale," Rogers said.
Freeman owns several businesses in Clarksdale, about 40 miles from his home, including the Ground Zero Blues Club and a restaurant named Madidi. Ashley Norris, the club's manager, said Wednesday that Freeman had not been there the night of the accident. No one answered the phone at Madadi.
Rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free "The Dark Knight" star and Meyer from the wreckage. Freeman was airlifted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. He suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder damage.
Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Wednesday that Freeman was still listed in serious condition. The actor had surgery Monday to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand, according to his publicist, Donna Lee. Lee said Freeman will make a full recovery.
Hospital officials say Meyer isn't listed in the hospital's registry. However, under medical privacy laws, people can request that their names not be listed as patients at a hospital.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer said Meyer was in the Tennessee hospital when the agency called to see how she and Freeman were doing Monday night.
Calls to Meyer's home Wednesday were not answered. Her condition was not immediately available. Rogers said Meyer did not appear to be injured as severely as Freeman.
Not much is known about Meyer. Rogers said she appeared to be an avid gardener - a hobby reportedly enjoyed by Freeman and his wife - because several gardening tools were flung around the accident scene when the car's trunk was ripped open by the impact.
Freeman won an Oscar for his role in "Million Dollar Baby." His screen credits also include "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Bucket List."