A surveillance video shows George Clooney's scooter accident



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7:43 pm PDT on 10/07/2018

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The Associated Press

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.

The actor George Clooney slammed his motorcycle into a car oncoming that suddenly turned in his way Tuesday and was thrown several meters into the air on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to the video of the accident.

"Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told the Associated Press in an e-mail.

The 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 and climbs into the air before landing on the asphalt

The John Paul II Hospital of Olbia has confirmed that Clooney had been treated and released after a few hours

. Local media representatives who gathered at the hospital said that the Oscar-winning actor-director had left. 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 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 on the scene showed that the right front bumper of the car was damaged and Clooney's bicycle on the side

Clooney was in Sardinia filming a television miniseries adapted from Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22

He stayed in a luxurious rental villa in the upscale neighborhood of Puntaldia, on the north-eastern 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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