Minnie Driver has been left with a sprained neck after colliding with another car in a 'really bad' crash during a trip to Paris. The 56-year-old Emily in Paris star shared a video on Instagram in which she wore a neck brace and lay in bed while detailing the crash on a French country road.
Crash details and immediate aftermath
Speaking from her London home, she said the collision had happened a few days ago while driving with a friend and they 'somehow walked out of it'. Driver said: 'Well, we didn't walk out of it; we crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive. To be very clear, it was not our fault.'
'We were driving on a country road in the middle of France and a car didn't stop at an intersection and was going at speed, and we just T-boned it. I'm fine. I've got a sprained neck, and I'm really in shock and cry all the time. But I'm going to heal and the reason that I'm not dead, honestly, is the car that we were driving.'
Praise for car safety features
The Good Will Hunting star went on to describe how the 360-degree airbags in her Kia car 'saved their lives'. Noting she has never been in a crash before, Driver continued: 'The fact the entire car didn't just concertina and crush us is down to the design of that car – which is frankly astonishing.'
Joking that she was not doing an advertisement for the Kia car, she went on to sing its praises, emotionally adding: 'We've got families and people who love us and I am so grateful to be alive.'
Gratitude and recovery
The video also included an image of the car wreckage and a photograph of Driver and her friend Ben walking out of the French hospital, having been treated. In the caption, Driver offered a shoutout to 'the van driver who stopped and helped us before the ambulances arrived', but also mentioned 'the car who slowed down, took in the scene and drove off without stopping'.
She added: 'My 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.'
