{"id":730348,"date":"2026-08-07T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:06:13","slug":"minnie-driver-is-grateful-to-be-alive-after-really-bad-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730348\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnie Driver is “grateful to be alive” after “really bad car accident”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Will Hunting star Minnie Driver has shared a scary ordeal in her latest social media post as she said she was involved in a “really bad car accident with a friend” while in France. <\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram<\/a>, Driver, who more recently appeared in The Witcher: Blood Origin and Emily in Paris, shared a video in which she addressed her followers while lying in bed and wearing a neck brace.<\/p>\n

“I got into a really bad car accident a few days ago with my friend Ben and we somehow walked out of it,” the Oscar-nominated star says in the video. “Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it. But we did get out of it alive.”<\/p>\n

\"minnie<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

“To be very clear, it was not our fault,” Driver continued. <\/p>\n

“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 sort of cry all the time, but I’m going to heal.”<\/p>\n

The star went on to praise the car that they were driving, a Kia EV2, saying its “360-degree airbags” are “the reason that I’m not dead”.<\/p>\n

“While this is categorically not a car ad \u2013 can you imagine if that’s what I was doing \u2013 I want to celebrate that car,” she said. <\/p>\n

“You know, I’m Minnie Driver, pun intended. I need to celebrate the car that saved us, because we’ve got families and people who love us, and I am so grateful to be alive.”<\/p>\n

“So, Kia, you are a baller car company,” Driver added. “You’re amazing, and thanks very much from me and my mate Ben.”<\/p>\n

The video ended with a photo of the totalled car and one of Driver and her friend walking out of the hospital together.<\/p>\n

In the caption, Driver thanked a van driver who stopped to help her and Ben before the ambulances arrived, while noting that another car slowed down to look at the scene, but didn’t stop. <\/p>\n

“I guess this is the Dao of the world, the light and the dark,” she wrote.
<\/p>\n

\"Headshot<\/p>\n

Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n