JACKSON, Miss. �
The woman world Health Organization was injured along with Morgan Freeman in a weekend elevator car accident on the face of it is a friend of the Oscar-winning actor world Health Organization had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says.
Freeman, 71, was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima that authorities said belongs to Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., when the car veered off a rural road Sunday nox a few miles from Freeman's home in the Mississippi Delta. The auto flipped at least twice.
Bill Rogers, a retired constabulary officer world Health Organization was the first person to arrive at the scene, aforesaid a stupefied Freeman told him that he and Meyer were headed to his menage in Charleston, a small town some 90 miles south of Memphis.
"He said that she had offered him a ride home; that they were friends and she had offered him a ride home and she didn't actually know the way and so he was going to take the vehicle," Rogers aforesaid Tuesday, recalling a conversation he had with the actor.
Freeman's friend and business partner, Bill Luckett, has told the Commercial Appeal newspaper that Meyer is the actor's friend.
Rogers said he talked to Freeman and Meyer in attempt to keep them conscious - something he was trained to do as a police officer.
"They said they were coming from Clarksdale," Rogers said.
Freeman owns several businesses in Clarksdale, about 40 miles from his home plate, including the Ground Zero Blues Club and a restaurant named Madidi. Ashley Norris, the club's director, said Wednesday that Freeman had non been at that place the night of the accident. No one answered the telephone set at Madadi.
Rescuers used a jaws-of-life simple machine to release "The Dark Knight" genius and Meyer from the wreckage. Freeman was airlifted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. He suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder damage.
Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Wednesday that Freeman was still listed in serious condition. The actor had surgery Monday to reconnect nerves and repair hurt to his left weapon and hand, according to his publicist, Donna Lee. Lee aforementioned Freeman will make a full recovery.
Hospital officials tell Meyer isn't listed in the hospital's registry. However, under medical privacy pentateuch, people bum request that their names not be listed as patients at a hospital.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer said Meyer was in the Tennessee hospital when the office called to see how she and Freeman were doing Monday night.
Calls to Meyer's household Wednesday were not answered. Her condition was non immediately available. Rogers aforementioned Meyer did not appear to be injured as severely as Freeman.
Not a lot is known about Meyer. Rogers aforementioned she appeared to be an greedy gardener - a hobbyhorse reportedly enjoyed by Freeman and his wife - because several gardening tools were flung around the accident scene when the car's trunk was ripped open by the impact.
Freeman won an Oscar for his role in "Million Dollar Baby." His screen credits likewise include "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Bucket List."
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