crash freeman........ You wouldn’t think an Academy Award Winning star of this summer’s blockbuster The Dark Knight would drive a used car, but the actor and his passenger were seriously injured when Freeman’s 1997 Nissan Maxima (1997?!) flipped off a Tennessee highway and rolled several times. Alcohol was not a cause of the incident, and Freeman has since fully recovered and returned to playing the same wise, older African American character he’s been type cast as for years.