Minnie Driver recovers after serious car crash in France

Actress Minnie Driver is recovering in London after surviving what she described as a "really bad" car accident on a country road in France. The 56-year-old Oscar-nominated star shared details of the collision in an emotional video posted to Instagram on August 6, 2026, in which she wore a neck brace and revealed she suffered a sprained neck and is experiencing shock.

Driver explained that the crash occurred "a few days ago" while she was driving with her friend, Ben Homewood. According to her account, another vehicle failed to stop at an intersection while traveling at speed, resulting in a T-bone collision. She was emphatic that the incident was not their fault. "We crawled out of it," Driver said, "but we did get out of it alive."

The actress credited the safety features of the car she was driving, a Kia EV2, with saving their lives. She specifically praised the vehicle's 360-degree airbags and its structural design, which she said prevented the car from crushing them upon impact. "The reason that I'm not dead, honestly, is the car that we were driving," Driver stated in the video. While joking that her update was "categorically not a car ad," she expressed a desire to...