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Rugged celebrity George Clooney and his girlfriend were injured when their motorcycle got into an accident with a car in Weehawken, NJ yesterday afternoon. Clooney, whose has been filming the Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading in New York and New Jersey, has a hairline fracture of a rib and road rash while Sarah Larson has broken some of her toes. Both were wearing helmets.
Clooney's spokesman Stan Rosenfeld said, "George said he was driving to the right of a car when the other driver signaled for a left turn. All of a sudden, the driver changed his mind, turned right, and ran into George."
Albert Sciancalepore, the driver whose car hit Clooney, differed with that account, and called WNBC to tell his side, "It was definitely his fault. He was behind me making a right turn in a single lane and he tried to cut me off from my right side." Weehawken police sergeant Sean Kelly said, "It's a he-said, she-said right now, but you can't pass on the right in Weehawken or anywhere in Jersey." Clooney did not receive a citation.
A witness David Sciumbata told the Daily News, "I thought he looked like George Clooney and the girl was very pretty, so it figured...She seemed really hurt. She had a cut on her face." And Sciumbata's friend, Jerry Zaslavsky, lives near the accident and offered to house the rented Harley-Davidson until the star could pick it up.
Clooney and Larson were treated at Palisades Medical Center. After being released, they headed back to Manhattan, where Clooney still plans to attend the New York premiere of his NYC-set lawyer drama Michael Clayton on Monday.
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Oh man, you run into a dude in Weehawken and it happens to be George Clooney. What luck.
"It was definitely his fault. He was behind me making a right turn in a single lane and he tried to cut me off from my right side."
How can someone cut you off if they are behind you turning right?
How's his face..?
Is his face o.k...??!!!!
EASY. They speed up and pass u on the right then cut you off. I'm a motorcyclist and all it takes is a twist of the wrist.
I live in Weehawken, in fact right on Blvd East where this accident occured. Recently I got violently sick. I wound up at Palisades in North Bergen--same hospital as the one George and his gf were brought to. Sh*ttiest hospital in the world! It took close to 6 hours to be seen even though I was in obvious pain. When I was seen, I was sitting among drunken/high criminals --thankfully wearing handcuffs -- who were brought in by police. Bathroom sink in emergency waiting room was smeared with blood. When I was discharged I was given discharge paperwork with confidetial info for Maria Lopez-- but that's not my name!!!
Very sh*tty hospital. Clooney & his gf should be kissing their lucky stars they weren't injured more seriously-- after being admitted to this hellhole!
Pass you on the right and then make a RIGHT turn? How is that cutting anyone off?
why is this so hard for you to understand? clooney was behind this dude while approaching an intersection, attempted to cut the corner to make the right assuming the car was going to continue going straight, dude didn't go straight and hit him.
It's hard to understand because it should say Clooney cut him off on his LEFT side. Clooney went RIGHT in front of the car on the dude's LEFT side. Not RIGHT side. Don't be snotty.