{"id":62277,"date":"2026-08-06T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/62277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:03:12","slug":"minnie-driver-in-car-crash-in-france-has-sprained-neck-but-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/62277\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnie Driver in Car Crash in France, Has Sprained Neck but Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/minnie-driver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_minnie-driver_1\" data-tag=\"minnie-driver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnie Driver<\/a> is recovering after being in a \u201creally bad car accident\u201d in France a \u201cfew days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWearing a neck brace, the Oscar-nominated actress revealed the news in an Instagram video recorded in London. Driver said the crash left her with a sprained neck, but she is otherwise \u201cfine\u201d and \u201cgrateful to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDriver recalled how she and her friend Ben were driving on a country road when their car was hit by another vehicle that failed to stop at an intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe somehow walked out if \u2026 Well we didn\u2019t walk out of it, we crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive,\u201d she said, adding that the crash was \u201cnot our fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDriver went on to credit the car they were in, which she said was key to their survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe reason why I\u2019m not dead, honestly, is the car that we were driving,\u201d Driver said. \u201cI\u2019ve never been in a crash before, but the 360-degree airbags are what saved our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI want to celebrate that car. I\u2019m Minnie Driver, pun intended, I need to celebrate the car that saved us,\u201d she added. \u201cBecause we\u2019ve got families and people who love us and I am so grateful to be alive, so, Kia, you are a baller car company. You\u2019re amazing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a caption alongside the video, Driver wrote, \u201cMy brain keeps replaying the crash which is very hard but seems to be a necessary part of processing. Weeping too, feels good and helpful. Thank you to my friends, my family, all the people at work and especially my friend Ben and his family. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe also thanked a van driver who stopped and helped her and her friend \u201cbefore the ambulances arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAt the end of the video, Driver shared a photo of the smashed car and her leaving the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDriver has been in Paris for much of the summer, since early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnie Driver is recovering after being in a \u201creally bad car accident\u201d in France a \u201cfew days ago.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,194,38629],"class_list":["post-62277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-france","tag-international","tag-minnie-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}