Lohan in bad car crash

DHAKA: Perennially troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was treated in hospital in Los Angeles after her car collided with a large truck in which her Porsche was written off, media reports said.

The TMZ celebrity news website said the star, who did not go in an ambulance from the crash scene, underwent tests in the hospital’s emergency room after her car crashed with an 18-wheeler on the Pacific Coast Highway.

The actress seemed in ‘OK’ condition and doctors were performing tests, it said, adding that the Porsche was ‘totalled’, and that the passenger window was shattered and the rear bumper was torn off.

The accident occurred on the coastal highway in Santa Monica, a seafront town to the west of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing police, The Straits Times reports Saturday.

BDST: 1919 HRS, JUN 9, 2012

Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor