Joaquin Phoenix is reported banged up but okay after he was involved in a serious car accident in the Hollywood Hills on Thursday. From the details that have been released, it sounds like Joaquin is lucky to still be with us.
"His brakes went out and the car flipped over," the actor's publicist, Susan Patricola, told US weekly magazine. "But he's doing fine." She added that actor was not hospitalized.
Joaquin was driving eastbound on Lookout Mountain Avenue near Laurel Canyon Avenue above Sunset Strip about 2:50 p.m. when he realized his brakes were not working, said police officer Jason Lee. He lost control of his car, and it flipped and hit another vehicle also headed eastbound. Joaquin was wearing his seat belt and walked away from the crash after being helped out of his car by a passer-by.
There's probably more to this story that we aren't hearing yet from the Associated Press. (Like, I hope the people in the other car are okay - no mention of them in the news reports!) And for a car to overturn like that he had to have been speeding along pretty fast. Brakes don't "fail" on cars like they did in those old 1950s movies. It's probably more like that frog jumped out of his hair and freaked him out. Again. Anyways, I love Joaquin, and he's a fabulous actor, and I'm glad to hear he's okay. The accident is under investigation.
