JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was
injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in
Memphis, Tennessee.
Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer says the
71-year-old Freeman 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 Sergeant Ben Williams
confirms Freeman was in a wreck shortly before midnight Sunday, but
said he was still gathering information and had few details.
Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he
arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after
it happened about four 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 went
it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
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,
McFerrin said Freeman joked, "no freebies, no freebies."
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