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Orlando Bloom In Car Crash
Friday October 12, 2007

Orlando Bloom
Orlando Bloom was involved in a car accident on the night of October 11, 2007.
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Orlando Bloom was involved in a car accident last night in Hollywood. After partying at the Green Door Lounge, Bloom, 30, crashed a black '03 Toyota Matrix (registered to Dariusz Wolski, the director of photography on the Pirates of the Caribbean) into another parked vehicle around 2:30 a.m.

Bloom was uninjured, but it is still unclear whether two female passengers with him were seriously hurt.

An eyewitness tells Us Bloom initially fled the scene until photographers began yelling, “Orlando – you cannot leave, go back." He promptly returned.

Bloom attempted first aid on one girl before ambulances arrived and took all three of them to the hospital, the witness said.

Bloom will not be charged or arrested, a LAPD spokesperson tells Us.

Initially that night, Bloom had gotten into a car with a couple, but changed his mind and walked down the street. With photographers following him, he hopped into the Toyota Matrix with two women. One of the women was too drunk to drive, a witness told Us, so she pulled over and Bloom got behind the wheel shortly before crashing the car.

Although Usmagazine.com spotted the actor drinking beer and vodka shots with his friends inside Green Door prior to the accident, LAPD Officer April Harding tells Us, “Mr. Bloom was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He was not drinking and he was not doing drugs."

On Friday morning, Bloom's rep issued the following statement: “Orlando Bloom ... 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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