William Shatner Gets Into Car Accident In Los Angeles Months After Spaceflight
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- William Shatner was driving alone in his black Mercedes-Benz SUV when he got into an accident with an unidentified woman
- The crash occurred on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon
- No one was injured in the collision, according to an LAPD spokesperson
William Shatner was involved in a car accident in California Tuesday.
The "Star Trek" star, 90, appeared unharmed in photos obtained by Page Six of the scene of the crash, which occurred on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon.
Shatner was driving alone in his black Mercedes-Benz SUV when he got into an accident with an unidentified woman, who was driving a silver Acura sedan.
It is unclear what led to the accident or who caused it, but photos showed that both vehicles were damaged in the collision.
Shatner's Mercedes, which he parked near a meter, appeared slightly damaged in the images. The other car, meanwhile, was propped up on the curb.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told Page Six Wednesday that police arrived at the scene but did not file an accident report because no one was injured in the accident.
Shatner and the unnamed woman exchanged information following the crash, the outlet reported.
The accident happened two months after Shatner became the oldest human in space during a brief but successful second crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket ship.
Shatner's journey into space launched him and three other passengers — Australian entrepreneur Chris Boshuizen, microbiologist Glen de Vries and Blue Origin executive Audrey Powers — more than 60 miles above Earth.
The capsule spent about three minutes in zero gravity above the Karman Line — the internationally recognized boundary of outer space — before heading back home to Earth.
Following his nearly 11-minute trip into space, the actor got emotional over "the most profound experience" he could imagine.
"I hope I never recover from this," Shatner said following his touchdown.
He continued, "I'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. It's extraordinary, extraordinary. It's so much larger than me and life. It hasn’t got anything to do with the little green men and the blue orb. It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death."
George Takei, with whom Shatner has been rumored to be feuding for years, later took a jab at his former "Star Trek" co-star's spaceflight, saying that Shatner's "boldly going where other people have gone before" and describing him as a "guinea pig."
"So 90 years old is going to show a great deal more on the wear and tear on the human body, so he'll be a good specimen to study. Although he's not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he'll be a specimen that's unfit!" Takei told Page Six.
Shatner fired back at Takei for body-shaming him, tweeting: "Don’t hate George. The only time he gets press is when he talks bad about me."
"He claims 50+ years ago I took away a camera angle that denied him 30 more seconds of prime time TV. I’m giving it back to him now by letting him spew his hatred for the world to see! Bill the [pig emoji]," Shatner added.
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