By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer 23 transactions past

JACKSON, Miss. - Oscar-winning mortal moneyman Freeman is in a infirmary in Memphis, Tenn., on weekday after existence earnestly scraped in a automobile happening nearby his bag in Mississippi.

Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in earnest condition. The infirmary is most 90 miles northerly of the happening environs in agricultural Tallahatchie County in the river Delta.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ben reverend said Freeman was dynamical a 1997 Nissan Maxima happiness to Demaris Meyer of metropolis when the automobile mitt a agricultural route and flipped individual nowadays presently before midnight Sunday.

“There’s no communication that either beverage or drugs were involved,” reverend said. He said both Freeman and Meyer were act centre belts. The woman’s information was not directly available.

Freeman was airlifted to the infirmary in Tennessee.

Clay McFerrin, application of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the happening environs on river Highway 32 presently after it happened most 5 miles westerly of Charleston, not farther from where Freeman owns a bag with his wife.

McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman’s automobile was airborne when it mitt the route and landed in a ditch.

“They had to ingest the jaws of chronicle to select him from the vehicle,” McFerrin said. “He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with whatever of the delivery workers at digit point.”

McFerrin said bystanders converged on the environs disagreeable to intend a looking of the actor.

When digit mortal proven to behave a picture with a radiophone sound camera, Freeman joked, “no freebies, no freebies,” McFerrin said.

Freeman won an accolade for his persona in “Million Dollar Baby.” His concealment credits also allow “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The Dark Knight,” today in theaters.

He was dropped in Memphis, Tenn., but spent such of his immatureness in the river Delta. He is a co-owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale.

The infirmary where Freeman is existence aerated is commonly famous as The Med, and is an acute-care doctrine artefact that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.