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Haley Joel Osment in 'Good Condition' Following Crash
By Doug Pendrell
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Haley Joel Osment is in 'good condition' following his car
crash in Los Angeles this morning. Osment
is said to have suffered a broken rib and an injured
shoulder as a result of the crash.
As ABC
News reports, "The 18-year-old actor
was in good condition and expected to make a complete
recovery, said Dr. Paul Gilbert, an orthopedic surgeon
at Huntington Hospital. He said Osment would remain
hospitalized at least through Friday."
As the Guardian
Unlimited reports, "Osment, nominated
for an Academy Award for 'The Sixth Sense,' was driving
a 1995 Saturn about 1 a.m. when he crashed into a mailbox
on a brick base and flipped over, Los Angeles County
sheriff's Lt. Greg Sisneros said. Osment, who was awake
and talking immediately after the crash in La Canada
Flintridge, was alone in the car and headed for his
Los Angeles home when the crash occurred, Sisneros said."
Dr Paul Gilbert was asked about Osment's blood-alcohol
at the time of the crash, to which he replied "
I'm sure blood samples were taken but I don't have a
comment on that." Gilbert went on to say "He's
pretty uncomfortable and resting. He just wants to let
everyone know he's going to be OK."
Haley Joel Osment isn't the first actor this week hospitalized
after a car crash, as Daniel
Baldwin ran his Ford Thunderbird into a couple
of parked cars on Wednesday and had to be hospitalized.
Daniel Baldwin faces reckless driving and driving with
a suspended license charges. No such charges have been
announced against Haley Joel Osment.
Haley Joel Osment, who turned eighteen this past April,
has had a relatively quite career in the last few years,
not appearing in a film since 2003's Secondhand Lions,
but will make a return to the big screen in Home
of the Giants, which he just finished shooting and
might be released by the end of the year. In Home
of the Giants, Haley Joel Osment plays a high school
journalist caught in the middle of a state championship
basketball scandal. Haley Joel Osment has been acting
for two-thirds of his life, appearing in Mixed Nuts
with Steve Martin when he was only six, but it was 1999's
The Sixth Sense which propelled him to a new
level of fame and an Oscar nomination. After that role,
Haley Joel Osment went on to star with Kevin Spacey
in Pay It Forward and played the lead in Steven
Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
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