Article: Clooney could face charges of dangerous driving after motorcycle crash in New Jersey

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 ...

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