{"id":846010,"date":"2026-08-06T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846010\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:08:16","slug":"minnie-driver-details-horror-car-crash-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846010\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnie Driver details horror car crash in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Minnie Driver<\/a> has shocked her famous friends and fans alike with a video from her bed in London clad in a neckbrace.<\/p>\n

The Good Will Hunting star<\/a> detailed a car crash she and friend Ben Homewood were involved in while they were in France recently, saying they crawled out of the crumpled wreck and are lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n

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Minnie Driver detailed a car crash she and friend Ben Homewood were involved in while they were in France recently.\u00a0Instagram\/Minnie Driver<\/p>\n

Driver, 56, got emotional as she credited the Kia EV2\u2019s airbag design for saving their lives and thanking the car company on behalf of their family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been in a crash before, but the 360-degree airbags are what saved our lives,\u201d the actress said in the clip, posted to Instagram on Thursday (Friday morning AEST). <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact the entire car didn\u2019t just concertina and crush us is down to the design of that car \u2013 which is frankly astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she realised it was beginning to sound like a promotional ad, the Emily in Paris actress clarified that\u2019s not what it was.<\/p>\n

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Minnie Driver was in this Kia EV2 when she crashed and credit\u2019s the car design with saving her life\u00a0Instagram\/Minnie Driver<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is categorically not a car ad \u2014 can you imagine if that\u2019s what I was doing,\u201d she stated with a laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to celebrate the car that saved us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding soon after that she\u2019s \u201cso grateful to be alive\u201d. <\/p>\n

Naomi Watts and Chelsea Handler were among the famous names to comment on her post, shocked by her story.<\/p>\n

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Minnie Driver and her friend Ben Homewood seen walking together in hospital after the crash\u00a0Instagram\/Minnie Driver<\/p>\n

Driver had been sharing updates with her followers on her trip to Paris and started this one by revealing how and why the content had changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cParis update is that I\u2019m actually back in London,\u201d she started the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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\u2019t walk out of it, we crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress revealed the crash happened \u201con a country road in the middle of France\u201d leaving her with a sprained neck.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be very clear, it was not our fault … a car didn\u2019t stop at an intersection and was going at speed and we just T-boned it,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n

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The actress suffered a sprained neck in the incident.\u00a0Instagram\/Minnie Driver<\/p>\n

While Driver said she was lucky not to be too physically hurt, she admitted she\u2019s \u201cin a sort of shock\u201d and cries \u201call the time\u201d but believes a differently designed small car would have crumpled on impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m gonna heal and the reason that I\u2019m not dead, honestly, is the car that we were driving.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the caption accompanying the clip, the mum-of-one, who has a 17-year-old son, thanked passersby who helped them.<\/p>\n

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The Good Will Hunting star says she is still suffering from shock but will heal.\u00a0Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cShout out to the van driver who stopped and helped us before the ambulances arrived,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial mention to the car who slowed down took in the scene and drove off without stopping.<\/p>\n

\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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip also included a shot of the car after the crash and a shot of Driver and Homewood in a hospital corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Minnie Driver has shocked her famous friends and fans alike with a video from her bed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-846010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}