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Article: Clooney could face charges of dangerous driving after motorcycle crash in New Jersey
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2007
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UNITED STATES
By David Usborne in New York
George Clooney, the Oscar-winning film actor, heart-throb and
occasional campaigner for Darfur, was facing possible dangerous
driving charges and nursing not-so-serious wounds yesterday after
crashing his motorcycle late on Friday in Weehawken, New Jersey,
just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
The tumble left him with a bad case of road rash and a hairline
fracture to one rib, but it also afforded him membership of a
distinguished club of celebrities who insist on boasting their
biking bravado and have similarly come a cropper over the years.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has landed himself in hospital the same way
(twice), as have Billy Idol, David ...