Actor LeVar Burton in car crash, but not badly
Posted July 13, 2009 11:00 pm
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police say actor LeVar Burton was involved in a five-car accident but wasn't seriously injured.
Detective Judy Acosta says Burton's 2006 Mercedes was on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles on Monday evening when a 74-year-old woman in a 2006 Scion turned left in front of him.
Acosta says the cars collided. Burton's then hit a parked car, leading to a chain reaction that damaged two other parked cars.
Acosta says both drivers complained of pain, then were examined at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and released. Nobody was ticketed.
Burton, 52, was in the TV miniseries "Roots," ''Star Trek: The Next Generation" and was the longtime host of "Reading Rainbow."
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