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Ambulance personnel tend to a man lying on the ground, later identified as actor George Clooney, after being involved in a scooter crash in nearby Olbia, on the island of Sardinia, in Italy, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Actor George Clooney On Tuesday, he was taken to hospital in Sardinia and released after being involved in an accident while driving his scooter, officials said. # 39; s hospital. "He is recovering at home and everything will be fine," spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press in an e-mail. Olbia's John Paul II Hospital confirmed that Clooney had been treated and released after Tuesday's accident. Local media who had gathered at the hospital said Clooney had left in a van by a side exit. (Mario Chironi / Associated Press)
by Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield | AP July 10 at 19:31
OLBIA, Sardinia – The actor George Clooney slammed his motorcycle into a oncoming car that suddenly sank in his hallway on Tuesday and was launched several meters in the air on the Italian island "He is recovering at home and everything will be fine," Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press in an e-mail .
Video surveillance of the accident, apparently taken by a fixed security video, was obtained Tuesday evening by the newspaper Corriere della Sera. It shows a blue Mercedes turning in oncoming traffic to turn into a residential complex near Olbia. The video shows what is reported as Clooney's scooter crashing into the car while another scooter next to him manages to tack around him.
Clooney is thrown on the front of his bike before landing on the asphalt, where the car
John Paul II Hospital of Olbia confirmed that Clooney had been treated and released after a few hours
. Local media representatives who gathered at the hospital said the Oscar-winning actor-director was gone. The La Nuova Sardegna newspaper said that 57-year-old Clooney was heading towards a film set when the accident occurred in a curve on the road near the entrance to the residential complex from Costa Corallina to the province of Olbia.
A stain of oil and police paint remained on the road. Photographs taken by someone who was pbading by showed that the right front bumper of the car was damaged and Clooney's bike was on the side.
Clooney was in Sardinia filming a mini-series adapted from Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22". He stayed in a luxurious rental villa in the upmarket area of Puntaldia, on the northeastern coast of Sardinia, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. The staff of the house refused to comment
Clooney is a frequent visitor to Italy. He has a house on Lake Como and was married in Venice in 2014 to the British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney
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Associated Press writer Paolo Santalucia reported this story in Olbia and writer Nicole Winfield reports from Rome. 19659018] Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This document may not be published, distributed, rewritten or redistributed.
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