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.

 

- Doug Pendrell

 

 

 

 
 
     
 
 
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