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Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in a car accident and is in hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer says Freeman, 71, is in serious condition.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman confirms Freeman was in a crash Sunday shortly before midnight on Mississippi Highway Two, but said he's still gathering information and had few other details.
Clay McFerrin, editor of the Sun Sentinel in Charleston, says he arrived at the accident scene soon after it happened, about six kilometres west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.
McFerrin says it appears that Freeman's car was airborne went it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
He says Freeman was conscious and lucid and was talking and joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.
McFerrin says bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor. He says when one person tried to snap a photo with a cellphone camera, Freeman joked, ``no freebies, no freebies.''
The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 250 kilometres of Memphis.
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Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in a car accident and is in hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer says Freeman, 71, is in serious condition.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman confirms Freeman was in a crash Sunday shortly before midnight on Mississippi Highway Two, but said he's still gathering information and had few other details.
Clay McFerrin, editor of the Sun Sentinel in Charleston, says he arrived at the accident scene soon after it happened, about six kilometres west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.
McFerrin says it appears that Freeman's car was airborne went it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
He says Freeman was conscious and lucid and was talking and joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.
McFerrin says bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor. He says when one person tried to snap a photo with a cellphone camera, Freeman joked, ``no freebies, no freebies.''
The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 250 kilometres of Memphis.
http://www.cjad.com/node/766156
