Actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition after a car accident in Mississippi Sunday night. The 71-year-old's car left the road and flipped several times according to a police report.
Freeman and a female passenger had to be freed from the car using the jaws of life. He was flown to Regional Medical Center. There is no word on the condition of the female passenger.
State troopers said the actor was talking at the scene of the accident.
More news will follow as be becomes available.
Update:
"They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle," Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, Mississippi, said. "He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point."
