Retired NBA star Lamar Odom was concerned in yet one more automobile crash final week. WFMZ stories that the wreck occurred in Los Angeles at about 3:00 a.m. on Monday morning and that he’s at present “totally fine.” Odom was reportedly on his manner dwelling from a buddy’s home when, in accordance with his spokesperson, “his phone fell and it dropped on the floor and when he reached out for it, his arm went with it.”
That transfer brought about him to drive his white Mercedes-Benz right into a parked automobile that then hit one other parked automobile. No one was in both of the parked vehicles, and whereas it’s at present not clear how briskly Odom was driving on the time, it was reportedly quick sufficient to depart him “a little shaken up” after “all three of his airbags deployed.”
When police arrived, they questioned Odom, who has a historical past of alcohol and drug abuse, about his sobriety however reportedly took him at his phrase that he hadn’t been ingesting and wasn’t on medication as a result of he now owns habit restoration facilities and stays sober. That was apparently sufficient for the Los Angeles Police Department, which didn’t carry out a sobriety check on the retired athlete.
Assuming his model of occasions is correct, Odom’s newest crash is as soon as once more a reminder to put your rattling telephone away when you’re driving. And if it occurs to fall out of a mount for some motive, it’s a lot safer to drag over and park earlier than rooting round within the flooring for it. Even in case your telephone will get broken within the course of, fixing it would nonetheless most likely price lower than getting right into a wreck.
This additionally isn’t Odom’s first phone-related automobile crash. Back in 2011, Odom’s driver hit a motorcyclist who then hit a teenage pedestrian who later died within the hospital. At the time, he blamed the deadly wreck on his driver failing to see the motorcyclist whereas within the strategy of handing Odom a telephone.
Source: jalopnik.com