Tiger Woods Injured in Car Accident

At approximately 2:25 a.m Friday morning, pro golfer Tiger Woods pulled out of his driveway in his black 2009 Escalade and struck a fire hydrant, then hit a tree in a neighbor's yard outside his Florida home. He was subsequently taken to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida, where he was reported to be in serious condition and was treated for facial lacerations. It is also reported that alcohol did not play a role in the accident. Good news arrived at around 3 PM, when his agent claimed Woods had been released from the hospital and was doing fine.

Nicole Richie is Seeking Medical Attention Following Car Crash

The Simple Life star Nicole Richie was driving a Land Rover when she was hit by a paparazzo in a Jeep Cherokee in Beverly Hills yesterday (10-5-09), and told police she was experiencing discomfort and was going to hospital.

“Ms. Richie was driving with a passenger around 2pm when she was struck by two photographers driving in one vehicle behind her," Lieutenant Tony Lee of the Beverly Hills Police said.

“She complained of pain. Her car sustained moderate damage. No paramedics were called to the scene.”

After the incident, Nicole’s mother Brenda arrived on the scene to console her crying daughter.

When asked if Nicole was feeling alright, Brenda replied: “No she’s not.”

Nicole and her mother are then believed to have stopped by Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment.

The driver who ran into Nicole is being investigated for driving without a license.

“Officers could not verify his identification," Lee added. "He's being physically brought into the station. This will likely be a misdemeanour traffic violation, and the photographer's vehicle will be towed.”

Another adult was in the car with Nicole, but her two children with partner Joel Madden – 20-month-old daughter Harlow and one-month-old son Sparrow – were not present.

Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Sentenced To Jail

Roger Avary, Oscar-winning screenwriter of movie Pulp Fiction, is sentenced to one year in jail and five years probation for vehicular manslaughter and DUI charges. Avary was the cause of a tragic car accident in January 2008, in which he was driving at 100 mph when the car sped out of control. The crash killed passenger and family friend Andreas Zini and critically injured Avary's wife, Gretchen. A $4.1 million settlement has been reached with the victim's family. Avary has taken full responsibility for his actions, saying: "It has profoundly altered me to the very core of my being."

Wienermobile Crashes Into House

A Wisconsin homeowner got the surprise of his life when the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got stuck in his deck and garage. The driver apparently drove down a dead-end street, and as she was turning the vehicle around, forgot to put the car in reverse and crashed into the house. Luckily, the owner of the house wasn't home at the time and nobody was injured. We can't say the same for the home or the Wienermobile, which both suffered some damage. We bet Oscar Mayer himself (who just died eariler this month) is rolling over in his grave.

Brandon Davis Smashes Up Pink's Car!

I'm not really sure what function Brandon Davis serves to begin with, but...

The ex of Mischa Barton and shameful oil heir was seen walking out of a liquor store on Sunset Blvd. at 1 A.M. on Monday, Dec 1st, after a night of pAArtying at the Viper Room.

The Mercedes-driving socialite backed into a BMW SUV belonging to Pink while trying to leave the parking lot. The singer's car was seriously banged up, and it was all caught on video by the paparazzi!

After a brief meeting with Pink, both parties drove off of the premises. She did NOT look pleased and was overheard saying she wanted to look at the video of Davis smashing into her car.

We're sure Brandon is glad no cops showed up!

Sad news: Deftones Bassist Injured in Crash

Chi Cheng bassist for rockers The Deftones is in a coma after a horrific car accident in California. The band's front-man Chino Moreno says that "the situation is very serious and Chi is in serious, but stable condition". Chi has played bass in the popular rock back since 1988. Our thoughts are with Chi, his family, and bandmates at this time. We certainly wish him a safe and speedy recovery.

Hogans receive threatening calls re. car accident

The Hogan family is reportedly on the receiving end of several threatening phone calls allegedly made by someone from the Graziano family.

John Graziano was a passenger when Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan's son, had his car accident last year. Graziano was nearly killed and sustained permanent injuries.

Clearwater, Fla. police are investigating the phone calls, although police spokesman Doug Matthews did not reveal the family member behind the threats. He also declined to name the Hogan party on the receiving end of the calls.

Morris Weinberg, an attorney for the Hogans, has confirmed that the police have listened to the threatening messages left on his clients' voicemail, although he did not reveal the content of said messages.

"Does the family take it seriously? Yes, they do," Weinberg said.

At this time, information is still pending. No charges have been filed and no arrests have been made thus far.

Britney not charged in accident w/paparazzo

Britney Spears will not be charged in an accident that occurred last year when the singer ran over a paparazzo's foot with her car. The unidentified photographer pressed charges, but Los Angeles prosecuters said he was to blame for the consequential injuries.

The incident took place in November when a career photographer claimed Spears drove over his foot while in a swarm of paparazzi outside the Four Seasons hotel.

Deputy District Attorney Joseph D. Shidler reviewed the police records and a videotape of the incident, and he wrote in his report Friday that the "only way the victim's foot could have been where the video indicates it to be was by the victim placing it in that location."

The videotapes reportedly showed no evidence of a photographer being hit, but the attorney's report did say, "There was a lot of noise and confusion as the photographers were jockeying for position." It also reported that Spears was "driving at an extremely slow rate of speed and in a straight path."

The paparazzo filed the report in May, almost six months after the alleged accident. His police complaint reportedly sought a felony charge of failing to stop after an accident that involved injury.

Spears spoke to police at the time and said she did not recall hitting anyone. The district attorney's office concurred that they had no evidence to prove she was aware of leaving the scene of an accident.

In other Spears legal news, documents were released today detailing a request from her father for payments connected to his conservatorship of the singer. Jamie Spears filed a document seeking an undisclosed sum of money to help his daughter buy groceries, deal with child custody matters and to pay for visits he made while she was in the hospital in February and March. It also stated that he has held meetings to increase security measures at her house.

A hearing about Jamie Spears' temporary, joint conservatorship is scheduled for Tuesday.

Hulk Hogan's family in car accident

Former wrestler Hulk Hogan and his family were reportedly involved in a car accident in Clearwater, Florida earlier today.

According to Tampa's CBS affiliate, WTSP, Hogan, his estranged wife Linda and their daughter Brooke were involved in a seven-car accident that shut down the northbound lanes of the Bayside Bridge.

Although no one was seriously hurt, the Hogan's white Mercedes was damaged and towed from the scene, WSTP reported.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the accident, which occurred just before 4 p.m. The Bayside Bridge was shut down for 20 minutes and later re-opened.

This was not the first car accident for the Hogan family. Son Nick, 17, was recently sentenced to 8 months in Pinellas County jail after a November car accident - where he was reportedly street racing - critically injured his friend, John Graziano.


UPDATE: According to an official Florida Highway Patrol report, Brooke Hogan was actually at the wheel of the car, and the only other person in the car was a friend of hers.

The head-on collision occurred when 19-year-old Ronald Gallman lost control of his vehicle when attempting to change lanes. He hit Hogan's car, pushing it into a concrete wall barrier.

Both cars involved sustained approximately $3,000 worth of damage. So far no charges have been filed against either drivers.

Britney in another car accident

Britney Spears was in yet another car accident Tuesday afternoon, when she rear-ended an SUV.

"I think she was just distracted," a witness said. "She just tapped the other car in front of her."

The 26-year-old singer was driving her white Mercedes-Benz SL65 in Beverly Hills when the accident occurred. She was reportedly leaving her Studio City home and taking an afternoon drive when she hit the red Ford Explorer.

The police were not notified of the accident. Spears's bodyguard, sitting in the front passenger seat, approached the driver of the SUV and gave her a business card. The woman then followed Spears back to her neighborhood to exchange information.

Spears was last involved in an accident April 12.

Dottie Rambo dies in bus wreck

Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, 74, passed away early Sunday after her tour bus ran off the highway and into an embankment. Seven other bus passengers were also injured in the accident on Interstate 44 near Mount Vernon, Missouri.

According to her website, the Nashville, Tenn. native was heading to a Mother's Day performance in Texas.

Rambo published more than 2,500 songs, including the gospel classics "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need" and "We Shall Behold Him." She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame the prior year.

Songs Rambo wrote were recorded by luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston and Barbara Mandrell.

"I know Dottie is in Heaven in the arms of God right now, but our earth angel will surely be missed," Parton said. "Dottie was a dear friend, a fellow singer, songwriter and entertainer, and - as of late - my duet singing partner."

Hulk Hogan's son sentenced to 8 months in jail

Nick Bollea, the 17-year-old son of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan, entered a no contest plea and was sentenced for charges of felony reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. The charges stem from an August 2007 car crash where Bollea's excessive speed led to critical, permanent injuries for his friend and passenger John Graziano.

Bollea had received numerous prior speeding tickets, and in court today it was revealed that his license plate, COEHSP, stands for "Capable of Eluding High Speed Pursuit."

Bollea faced up to five years in state prison if he did not take the plea agreement. Instead, the reality star of VH1's "Hogan Knows Best" was sentenced today to eight months in Pinellas County Jail, effective immediately.

During the sentencing part of the hearing, 12 witnesses said they saw Bollea drag racing at the time of the accident.

Graziano's father Ed also made an emotional plea on behalf of his son: "John was my first born son, and the first chance to carry on my family name."

Before the accident, John Graziano "was healthy, he was safe, and he was strong. He was a hero. He was a United States Marine. He was willing to put his life in harm's way to protect his country's freedom, [but] what Al Queda could not do to my son, Nick did to my son in minutes."


Ed Graziano also said his son's mental and physical condition is likely permanent, and that he will probably never be able to communicate with family and friends again.

John Graziano's father, as well as his sister, Kristen Carson, said Bollea never expressed his remorse for his role in the accident.

"We have never once heard him apologize. He has never said sorry," Carson said.

The Hogan family responded to the accusations.

"I miss John being around me all the time," Bollea said. "I know this has been extremely difficult for the Grazianos, and it has also been extremely difficult to my family, and I feel terrible about it."

While Hulk Hogan expressed his condolences, both for the Graziano family and his own, he also defended Bollea.

"Nick is not the person that he's been asked to be portrayed on TV... Nick is a good person. He is kind, he is gentle, he's compassionate, and he doesn't have a bad bone in his body," he said. "People fail to realize that Nick is still a 17-year-old child."

Prior to Judge Philip Federico sentence, he said the crash was not "an accident" and called Bollea's driving behavior "cavalier."

In addition to the 8 years behind bars, Federico sentenced Bollea to five years of probation, 100 hours of community service per year and one day monthly in "some positive framework." He also suspended Bollea's driver's license for three years and told the underage teen he could not drink alcohol.

7-year-old charged with grand theft auto

A seven-year-old Florida boy was uninjured after stealing his grandmother's SUV and going for an eight-minute joyride - leaving a path of destruction in his wake - in a Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood Friday.

The unidentified boy reportedly ran into parked cars, mailboxes and signposts. According to police, the boy stopped after a collision with a sign caused the right front wheel to fall off.

Police spokeswoman Ellen Lovejoy said it is unlikely that the boy will be prosecuted. He was arrested so he can get help, as his adventure was "unusual behavior for a seven-year-old," she added.

The child's mother said her son grabbed the keys, backed the Dodge Durango out of the driveway, and took off... perhaps taking the auto maker's slogan to "grab life by the horns" a bit too seriously.

"When [the grandmother] came in, she saw the keys were gone," Lovejoy said. "Her car was gone too."

Fortunately, no one else was injured during the spree.

Stuntman injured on James Bond site

A stuntman filming an action sequence for the new James Bond film was seriously injured Wednesday. He and another stuntman crashed during a car chase on a winding lakeside road in Northern Italy.

The London-based production company for the film, "Quantum of Solace," said the experienced stuntman who was driving an Alfa Romeo at the time was still in the hospital in serious condition. Marco Girardi, a spokesman for the town of Limone sul Garda and a liaison to the production company, said the driver suffered serious head injuries in the crash. Another driver in the same car also suffered less serious injuries.

Girardi said the crew had been filming for two weeks when the Alfa Romeo crashed into a wall while filming a car chase with a truck and James Bond's Aston Martin. A helicopter on standby during the filming took the seriously injured stunt driver to Verona where he had surgery.

Girardi also said that filming was scheduled to conclude Wednesday, soon after the crash occurred. It was the second accident on the movie set in the past four days. On Saturday an Aston Martin was being delivered to the set when it skidded off the road and into Lake Garda due to heavy rain and poor driving conditions. There were no injuries and the car was later recovered.

Director Marc Forster and star Daniel Craig were not on set at the time of the accident. The production company closed the set on Thursday and workers and officials declined to comment to the press. Barring any more on-set incidents, "Quantum of Solace" will be released in the UK on Halloween and in the U.S. on 7 Nov.

Woman who hit Sandra Bullock is going to court

Lucille Gatchell, the sixty-four-year-old woman who crashed into Sandra Bullock’s SUV, is scheduled for an arraignment Tuesday in a Gloucester District Court.

She is facing drunken driving charges, and her blood-alcohol level was allegedly twice the legal limit in the state of Massachusetts at the time of the accident.

Neither Bullock nor her husband, Jesse James, were injured in the crash on Friday night.

Bullock is currently filming a romantic comedy entitled “The Proposal.”

Sandra Bullock in car accident

Sandra Bullock and her husband Jesse James were in a car accident last night, according to People. The actress and James were riding home in a private car from Gloucester, Mass. at 9:50 p.m. when a drunk driver switched lanes suddenly, smashing the front of the star's car. There were no injuries, fortunately.

"They were shaken up, needless to say," Gloucester Police Lt. Gerry Cook said. "But they were fine – he was hugging her. Jess and Sandra were hugging. They said they were fine, they didn’t need medical attention. There were quite a few people snapping pictures of them."

The driver of the other car, 64-year-old Gloucester resident Lucille P. Gatchell, failed a field sobriety test and had a blood alcohol level of .20, two and a half times the legal limit. She was arrested and later released on her own recognizance. She will be arraigned on Tuesday for driving under the influence and failure to stay in marked lanes.

Cook said Gatchell did not realize Sandra Bullock was in the car she hit until the arresting officer told her on the way to the station. "And then she started laughing; she was really giddy," he said.

Britney Spears in car accident

Britney Spears was in a minor car accident Saturday night while driving her Mercedes on the Los Angeles freeway. She was fortunately not injured.

According to the accident report, "The collision occurred when the driver of the Mercedes, driving in the #3 lane, in stop and go traffic failed to observe the vehicle directly ahead of her come to a complete stop. She attempted to brake but failed to stop her vehicle prior to colliding into the rear of the Nissan [in front of her]."

The singer has been laying low as of late. She spent most of the day prior to the accident at her Studio City home, then later that night her bodyguards drove her to Dominick's in West Hollywood to have dinner with her mother.

Brit runs over photog's foot

Britney Spears drove over the foot of a paparazzo Thursday night, only a day after she lost custody of sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Video shows Spears exiting a parking garage in Beverly Hills amidst hordes of paparazzi. One photograper then fell to the ground as the singer's white Mercedes convertible appeared to roll over his foot. He quickly got up, but Spears didn't wait to make sure he was okay.

Other photographers at the scene allege Spears started to cry and drove off.

The singer is already facing two misdemeanor charges from the parking lot incident several months ago. Her arraignment is Oct. 25. No word yet on if the paparazzo is okay or if he'll press charges.

Britney charged in August accident

Britney Spears was charged with several counts on Friday stemming from her August 6 accident in a Studio City parking lot.

Prosecuters charged Spears with misdemeanor counts of hit and run and driving without a valid license. The singer could face six months in jail and up to $1,000 in fines for each count if she is found guilty, said Nick Velasquez, spokesman for the Los Angeles attorney’s office.

Paparazzi video shows Spears steering into a parked car, then examining the damage to her own car and walking away. Three days later Kim Robard-Rifkin, the owner of the other vehicle, saw the video on TMZ.com and filed a police report.

"I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody’s car if I had done that," Robard-Rifkin told TMZ in August. She said she had expected to hear from Spears' camp about repairs but never did.

Spears' arraignment is October 10.