Soccer Player Paul Gascoigne Hospitalized After Car Crash

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A spokesperson for Newcastle General Hospital says Paul Gascoigne's condition is 'serious but not life-threatening.'

June 15, 2010

AceShowbiz - Troubled British soccer star Paul Gascoigne has been hospitalized after he was injured in a car crash in north-east England on Sunday evening, June 13. The former England national player, who has battled alcohol addiction and was sectioned under the U.K.'s Mental Health Act in 2008, was being driven through Newcastle upon Tyne along with two other passengers when the incident happened.

The car is said to have left the road and smashed into a signpost. Gascoigne was taken to the nearby Newcastle General Hospital, along with one other man, and his condition has been described as "serious but not life-threatening" by a spokesperson for the medical facility.

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