New allegations are emerging about the woman in the passenger seat the night actor Morgan Freeman was in a car crash on a rural Mississippi highway.  Freeman is saying that Demaris Meyer, the passenger, was partly to blame for the rollover car accident.

Meyer is currently suing the 71-year-old actor in a U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, for her medical bills, pain and suffering, lost wages, permanent disability and property damage.

Morgan Freeman is being sued for a rollover car accident that happened in August 2008.

As car accident attorneys, we know that there are over six million auto accidents each year in the United States.  Nobody is immune to car accidents, and that auto accidents can happen to anyone at anytime, often causing severe injuries.  Even celebrities — that seem invincible on the big screen — are not immune to car accident injuries. 

Both Meyer and Freeman were seriously injured in the car crash.

In this car accident personal injury claim, Meyer claims that Freeman was was drinking that night – though it stops short of saying he was intoxicated.  No criminal charges were filed against the actor, who ran off the side of a road on a two-lane highway in Charlestonin the Mississippi River Delta, about five miles west of Freeman’s home.

Freeman admits that he was partly at fault for the roll-over car accident.  He also claims that Meyer was at fault as well but would not reveal how she helped cause the accident.

Driving a car is a skill that requires your full attention.  Some people take this for granted and engage in distracted driving, drunk-driving, or even reckless driving — are all top causes of car accidents.  While the immediate cause of this car accident is not yet known, we know that automobile accidents are almost always caused by the driver — as this personal injury lawsuit against Freeman states.  But we do not know all the facts, so anything could be possible.

If you or a loved find yourself in a car accident the best thing to do is to hire a car accident lawyer right away.

Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a FREE CONSULTATION with an experienced car accident attorney to determine how we may help you.  We look forward to providing good advice to help you make smart decisions about your case in either English or Spanish.

About Michael Pines

Michael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.