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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject: Morgan Freeman (Roy) in bad accident!! |
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It happened over the weekend in Mississippi, he was taken to a Memphis hospital in serious condition....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26010759/
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Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The hospital is about 90 miles north of the accident scene in rural Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ben Williams confirmed Freeman was in a wreck shortly before midnight Sunday, but said he was still gathering information and had few details Monday. Earlier reports said the actor's car left the road and flipped several times.
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Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after it happened about 4 miles west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.
McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman’s car was airborne when it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
“They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle,” McFerrin said. “He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.”
McFerrin said bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor.
When one person tried to snap a photo with a cell phone camera, Freeman joked, “no freebies, no freebies,” McFerrin said.
Freeman won an Oscar for his role in “Million Dollar Baby.” His screen credits also include “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Driving Miss Daisy” and he currently stars in the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight.”
The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis. |
Freeman was just on the Today show with Michael Caine July 15 talking about their roles in 'The Dark Knight', the vid-clip can be clicked after clicking the link at the top.
Hope he pulls through...we're just months away from his first eps as Roy Bingham on AOL's AW reruns....get well soon, Morgan!! |
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I read that the hospital reports his injuries as a broken arm and bum shoulder. He is awake and lucid and should recover.
I hope so!
Get well Morgan!
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Update from MSNBC::::
Sounds like our 'Roy' is very lucky to be with us....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26010759/
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Morgan Freeman remained in serious condition Tuesday with a broken arm and elbow after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from the wreckage of his car.
Freeman, 71, and Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis following the accident on a dark stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway in Tallahatchie County on Sunday night.
State troopers said the car careened off the highway and flipped end-over-end before landing upright in a ditch.
Bill Rogers, a retired police officer, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he witnessed the accident near the small town of Charleston, not far from where the Oscar-winning actor owns a home with his wife.
“I was watching television about 11:15 and I heard a car sliding on the highway out in front of our house. As I looked out the window, I saw it began to flip after it hit our next-door neighbor’s drive,” Rogers said. “It went end-over-end about twice and then it came back on its wheels in the ditch. It was a mess.”
Rogers said Freeman and Meyer were briefly unconscious when he got to the vehicle. Freeman was driving Meyer’s 1997 Nissan Maxima, authorities said.
“Mr. Freeman thought he may have gone to sleep but he wasn’t sure,” Rogers said. “He didn’t know what happened.”
“The car was bent on the front as well as rear — I mean severely,” Rogers said. “It was so bad I couldn’t tell what it was.”
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is still investigating the accident, Sgt. Ben Williams said Tuesday. Alcohol and drugs don’t appear to be a factor and no citations are likely to be filed, he said.
Freeman was airlifted about 90 miles to the Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder damage, according to his publicist, Donna Freeman.
Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Tuesday that Freeman remained in serious condition. Meyer’s name wasn’t in the hospital registry, Stringer said. However, under medical privacy laws people can request that their names not be listed as patients at a hospital.
Williams said Meyer was in the Memphis hospital when the Highway Patrol checked Monday night and both she and Freeman were in “good spirits.”
Rogers said Freeman complained of pain from injuries before being loaded onto a medical helicopter, but “was more concerned about the people around him than himself.” |
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Prayin' for Morgan's speedy recovery. I did have to chuckle at the part where he jokingly told the guy with the cell phone camera "No freebies...no freebies." 
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| Prayin' for Morgan's speedy recovery. I did have to chuckle at the part where he jokingly told the guy with the cell phone camera "No freebies...no freebies." |
Morgan Freeman helped shape my life as Easy Reader on The Electric Company. And no offense intended to the late George Burns, but I liked Morgan Freeman as God in Bruce Almighty even better than George Burns in Oh God. I look forward to seeing him on AW as Roy Bingham at AOL. I hope he recovers soon and completely.
"No freebies, no freebies..." Even injured, he's joking. I admire anyone who can do that.
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I pray that Morgan has a speedy recovery.
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