Orlando Bloom: Car Crash Victim
Orlando Bloom got into a car accident in Los Angeles last night around 2:15 a.m., according to TMZ.
Orlando, 30, was driving two female friends in a 2003 Toyota Matrix registered to Dariusz Wolski, the director of photography on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. He was apparently cut off by another driver, causing him to crash into a parked Porsche Cayenne.
Riding in the backseat was celebrity stylist Cher Coulter, who suffered a laceration on her head and a fractured neck. No word on who was riding shotgun yet, but she reportedly was cut by her seat belt. Orlando seemed to walk away from the accident unscathed but paid close attention to his friends.
Mr. Bloom got into the accident 15 minutes after leaving “Green Door” nightclub in Hollywood. He was reportedly not driving under the influence.
UPDATE: Orly’s rep just released a statement: “Orlando Bloom, who was in a minor car collision late last night, is grateful that no one was seriously injured. Bloom called for help immediately following the incident. He spent last night at the hospital to be with his childhood friend who sustained a minor neck injury. He is thankful that emergency services arrived so quickly and that the ER staff at Cedars Sinai took such good care of his friend.”
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Bottom line, Joanie, is that the video taped material makes him look bad. The fact that he actually had to be told by paparazzi what his moral and ethical (and legal) obligations are in that type of situation says more about Orlando Bloom than it does about them!
Funny, that. And really too bad.
The paps were a part of the situation, but they didn’t cause Orlando to behave strangely, to get drunk, or take drugs, or make a pass at another man’s woman, or get into his car and get into his face about what happened in the club. Bloom has to accept responsibility for his role in this whole situation. Celebs can’t blame the paps for everything.
Bloom chose to do certain things and to be where he was a given point in time. Paps will chase a celeb and video tape him or her probably once they’ve stopped moving in their own vehicles. Bloom should have insisted on taking a cab, or having a Designated Driver. He also could have - and should have - made the 911 call right then and there.
I hate papaNAZI.
#76,
and other pap-brainwashed sheep,
People involved in accidents usually lose all conscious train of thought and do some pretty irrational things. Since he’s been in a couple of serious ones before (breaking his back), then I wouldn’t be surprised if the first thing he wanted to do was get away and pull himself together for a couple of minutes.
Plus, don’t you think Bloom would be aware how stupid it’d look for his rep if his intentions were to run from the scene, while the paps were filming this and there were several witnesses? We haven’t heard from the pap who supposedly caused the crash…ironic. Wonder who’s the Hit ‘n’ Run driver now?
LAPD confirmed he didn’t look strung out… the cop he was talking to was close enough to see IF he had a problem. And why would a celebrity (who happens to be less popular in the US)have these so called “privileges” when Paris Hilton, Lindsay, Nicole Richie, Kiefer Sutherland, Mel Gibson DIDN’T?
TMZ is already known to be as accurate as a bag of sh*t not being smelly…so the whole “he came on to her” thing is unproven. She could’ve been leading him on and other dude overreacted.
OB:”I didn’t know you had a boyfriend…”
Girl:”He’s not my boyfriend, he’s my ex.”
Nuff said.
TMZ’s obviously worked up about getting all the blame. Look at all the stories they’ve made up to cover their a**es and distract people from the actual situation in hand. But of course at the end of the day the most notoriously scummy paparazzi and a Perez Hilton blogger are more believable than the LAPD (*rolls eyes*).
If Orlando doesn’t feel that he’s been treated fairly, or if he feels that he’s been set up by the paps, he can have his day in court. The investigation is apparently ongoing. Bloom probably isn’t going anywhere for a while, not until this is settled one way or another. The paps ARE a problem, but Orlando being out and possibly partying till the wee hours of the morning, and getting into confrontations outside bars and nightclubs isn’t going to help his cause in this type of situation. If Bloom has anything more he wishes to say, he can say it. Or, he can remain silent. The choice is his. If the police didn’t follow correct procedure, then they goofed up. That makes the LAPD look bad. For the future, Orlando should avoid the places where paparazzi are known to hang out - if he wants to avoid further stress and aggravation. It’s just not worth it.
If the police didn’t follow correct procedure, then they goofed up. That makes the LAPD look bad.
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Don’t the LAPD only give the breathilizer and things IF they think it’s required. Obviously in this case they don’t, or he had them fooled pretty well, and it’s not hard spotting a drunk!
TMZ (who continue NOT giving the story up), say LAPD are still investigating Orlando for “hit and run” charges, but every other source (IMHO also more legit ones), say the LAPD have kept Bloom out of this case and are just looking for the white-pap SUV that disappeared from the scene.
Agree he should avoid places with lots of paps…it’d suck to be a celeb and not be able to party casually with my friends and be normal for once, without worrying about every move being scutinized or twisted out of proportion the next day. At the end money can’t buy you happiness.
I don’t think he was fleeing, he was trying to get help but paps was following him around, he was trying to make a call to get help
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