Freeman injured in car accident

AndrewPKYap

5 Aug 08, 02:52

Morgan Freeman received an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby in 2005

Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in hospital after being injured in a car accident in Mississippi.

The 71-year-old Dark Knight star is in a serious condition, according to staff at Memphis's Regional Medical Center.

The accident happened shortly before midnight on Sunday in Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.

A Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman told the BBC that Freeman's car left the road and "began to flip several times" before landing in a ditch.