The 71-year-old Oscar-winner and star of new Batman film The Dark Knight is being treated in a Memphis hospital following the crash shortly before midnight last night.
TMZ is reporting that the "Dark Knight" star, and Hollywood's favorite voice of God, was in a car accident around 11:30 Sunday night, just north of Ruleville, Miss.
A spokesperson with the Mississippi Highway Patrol said Freeman and a
female passenger were traveling eastbound on Mississippi Highway 32 in
Bolivar County when his vehicle went off the edge of the road. Freeman's
vehicle flipped several times before it came to rest.
Emergency crews extracted Freeman, and his passenger from their vehicle
using the jaws of life.
Freeman was airlifted from the crash scene to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. The news of the wreck was initially reported by MediaTakeout.
Freeman is listed in serious condition. State troopers told reporters that the actor was talking before he was taken to the hospital.
Freeman is one of Hollywood's best-loved actors, with films including The Shawshank Redemption, Amistad and Million Dollar Baby, the latter earning him an Oscar in 2005.
He is currently on the big screen as Lucius Fox, Batman's trusty aide in The Dark Knight.
The hospital, commonly known as The Med, is an acute-care teaching facility which serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.
Ashley Norris, manager of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which is owned by Freeman, confirmed the actor was in an accident but said she had no other details.
Even though he has a hot property in Hollywood, Freeman still calls Mississippi home.
He and his wife, Myrna, live near Charleston, Miss., on a 126-acre ranch with a main house, peach trees and horse stables.
Freeman built the ranch on the same land his grandparents worked, which is where he spent much of his childhood.
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