Joaquin Phoenix Survives Serious Car Crash

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Phoenix's car overturned on a canyon road and collided with another vehicle after his brakes went out, but there were no reports of injury

January 28, 2006

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Golden Globe winner actor Joaquin Phoenix got involved in a serious car accident Thursday Jan 26th. Fortunately, the star is okay.

The accident happened when Phoenix was driving eastbound above Sunset Strip about 2:50 p.m. when he realized his brakes were not working. Loosing control, his car overturned and hit another vehicle also headed eastbound.

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Luckily, the actor was wearing his seat belt and was able to walk away from the scene after a passerby helped him out of the car, his publicist, Susan Patricola said.

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