Minnie Driver ‘grateful to be alive’ after near-fatal car crash
Minnie Driver was in a “really bad” car collision in France.
The “Emily in Paris” star told her Instagram followers Thursday — while wearing a neck brace — that she is “grateful to be alive.”
The actress, 56, detailed the crash, explaining, “I got into a really bad car accident a few days ago with my friend Ben and we somehow walked out of it. Well we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it. But we did get out of it alive.”
She clarified that the T-bone accident, which took place on an “old country road,” was not her fault.
“A car didn’t stop at an intersection and was going at speed and we just T-boned it,” Driver added. “I’m fine. I’ve got a sprained neck.”
“I’m really in a sort of shock and cry all the time but I’m gonna heal,” she continued. “The reason that I’m not dead honestly is the car that we were driving.”
She gave an emotional shoutout to the “little tiny Kia” with its 360-degree airbags, saying, “The fact that the entire car didn’t just crush us is down to the design of that car which is frankly astonishing.”
Calling herself “Minnie Driver, pun intended,” the Emmy nominee gushed, “I need to celebrate the car that saved us because we’ve got families and people who love us. … So, Kia, you are a baller car company. You’re amazing. And thanks very much.”
In her caption, Driver raved over “the van driver who stopped and helped … before ambulances arrived.”
She also made “special mention of the car who slowed down took in the scene and drove off without stopping.”
The “Borderline” star concluded, “I guess this is the Dao of the world, the light and the dark. 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.”
Driver’s loved ones shared their support in the comments section, wishing her a “speedy recovery.”
The “Speechless” alum has been documenting her Paris trip on social media all summer long.
“Eat a crêpe, go for a walk,” she captioned an Instagram video of herself eating a pastry full of “lemon and sugar, as God intended.”
She wrote, “People shouldn’t be scared of carbs. They’re lovely. … Life is horribly, horribly short.”
