Actor and comedian Kevin Hart has been treated for “major back injuries” after being caught up in a horror car crash in Malibu Hills, Los Angeles in the early hours of Sunday morning.
According to TMZ, the infamous comedian was in the passenger seat of one of his vintage cars – a blue Plymouth Barracuda – when the driver lost control of the vehicle and swerved off the Mulholland Highway in Malibu Hills, crashing through a wooden fence and plunging down into a gully at around 1am in the morning.
The star was seriously injured in the car accident over the weekend, with the roof of the car was completely crushed in the accident.
The damage was extensive.
Authorities confirmed to TMZ that while the car belongs to Hart, he wasn’t driving — and that both he and the driver, his friend Jared Black, suffered “major back injuries”.
Police also told Entertainment Tonight that Black was “determined not to be under the influence of alcohol.”
The third passenger, a woman, did not require hospital treatment. The roof of the classic car was completely destroyed.
According to witnesses, Hart was the first person out of the wrecked vehicle, and was picked up by a member of his security team and taken home “to get medical attention”.
He was eventually treated at hospital, with “major back injuries” being ruled as the result of the crash.
Earlier on Saturday, the Central Intelligence star had shared a video on Instagram of himself out driving the vintage car, which he bought for himself just a few months ago as a 40th birthday present.
In a picture uploaded on social media in early July, Kevin Hart proudly posed with the Barracuda and revealed he’d nicknamed it “Menace”.
“I added some more muscle to the family for my 40th …. welcome home ‘Menace’ #MuscleCarLover,” he wrote to his 78 million followers.
