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| Written By Rick
Ellis, Monday, August 4th, 2008 PREVIOUSLY: Morgan Freeman Injured In Car Accident Actor Morgan Freeman is undergoing surgery on his arm following a single-car accident Sunday evening. Business partner Bill Luckett of Clarksdale said Freeman, 71, was in good spirits, despite having suffered a broken arm and shoulder. "He’s worried about his golf swing," he told reporters Monday evening. According to police reports, the wreck occurred around 11:30 Sunday night, just north of Ruleville, Miss. in rural Tallahatchie County. The site of the accident is located about 90 miles south of Memphis. A woman in the car with Freeman, Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, was also injured in the one-car crash. According to police sources, both she and Freeman were conscious when help arrived. Freeman and Meyer were airlifted to Regional Medical Center at Memphis for treatment. Freeman, 71, was driving Meyer’s 1997 Nissan Maxima eastbound on Miss. 32 when the car left the road and flipped several times, said Sgt. Ben Williams of the Mississippi Highway Patrol. "He just told them he ran off the road," said Williams. Miss. 32 is a two-lane road with very narrow shoulders where the crash occurred, and Williams said the road was slick from a rain that afternoon. The Mississippi Highway Patrol has ruled out alcohol as a cause of the accident. The condition and current location of Meyer is not publicly known. Officials at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis declined to confirm she was a patient, citing privacy laws. The Memphis Chamber of Commerce Web site lists Meyer as an employee of Federal Express. Federal Express officials declined to comment, citing privacy concerns for their employees. Freeman and his wife Myrna live near Charleston, Miss., on a 126-acre ranch. The actor built the ranch on land his grandparents worked, and it is also where he spent much of his childhood. Freeman, 71, currently stars as Wayne Enterprises CEO Lucius Fox in the "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight." Freeman won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2005. His other credits include such films as "The Shawshank Redemption,"
"Driving Miss Daisy," "Unforgiven" and "Street Smart," which earned
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