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Stock Ford-150 pick-up trucks, Indy 4 and Transformers star Shia LeBeouf learned to his regret early Sunday morning, aren't made for going airborne like CG and stunt cars. The actor was trying to make a left turn at the (somewhat notorious for its fender-smashers) West Hollywood intersection of La Brea and Fountain around 3 a.m. when his pick-up collided with a second vehicle, the Associated Press reported . His truck rolled and landed upside down, and was shown looking battered on local television. LeBoeuf, who has injuries to a knee and hand (the latter serious enough to necessitate surgery), was booked on suspicion of D.U.I. but freed on "field release" to have his injuries attended to at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where he was reported to still be Sunday night. His unnamed woman passenger was reported to be uninjured. The unidentified couple in the second vehicle suffered various injuries, or so they volunteered to Fox News in a phone call. LeBeouf's misdemeanor D.U.I. was a result, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Wolf said, of a quick realization at the accident location: "It was immediately apparent to officers responding on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated and he was subsequently placed under arrest," Wolf said. LeBeouf, 22, a fast-rising young star who was in the break-out hit Disturbia before going on to work for Steven Spielberg opposite Harrison Ford in the worldwide hit I ndiana Jones and the Temple of the Cr ...
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