Dick Van Dyke, 97, Suffers Minor Injuries After Reportedly Driving Into A Gate

Dick Van Dyke, 97, got into a insignificant car mishap successful Malibu, California connected Wednesday, March 15, TMZ reported a week later. The outlet claimed that cops recovered the famous comedian down the instrumentality of his car, a metallic 2018 Lexus LS 500, aft helium crashed into a gross owed to the rainy conditions connected the roads. Dick allegedly told cops that helium “lost control” of his conveyance and slammed close into the gate, aft which cops and paramedics arrived to cheque connected him. Dick “was bleeding from the chemoreceptor and rima and mightiness person suffered a concussion,” TMZ reported, but the legendary histrion seemingly refused to spell to the hospital.

Dick Van Dyke astatine the 2017 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards (Photo: Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

At the clip of the accident, Dick was not connected drugs oregon intoxicated from alcohol, TMZ confirmed successful their report. But cops person allegedly requested that Dick retake his driving trial due to the fact that of his age. Dick has yet to talk retired astir his car mishap connected societal media oregon successful a nationalist statement. The Mary Poppins prima has an Instagram with implicit 100K followers.

Dick’s mishap happened astir a period aft the Hollywood icon returned to the spotlight arsenic a contestant on The Masked Singer. Dick was revealed to beryllium the Gnome connected the Feb. 15 premiere occurrence and got a lasting ovation and cheers from the assemblage and the judges. Judge Nicole Scherzinger adjacent cried astir the reveal and told Dick that “the full satellite loves you truthful much.”

Dick Van Dyke retired and astir successful Malibu successful Oct. 2022 (Photo: MEGA)

After his elimination from The Masked Singer, Dick did an interrogation with Yahoo wherever helium revealed what keeps him “youthful” astatine 97 years old. Dick gave each the credit to his woman Arlene Silver, 51, who he’s been joined to since 2012. “Having a beauteous young woman fractional my property to instrumentality attraction of maine — that works!” helium said. “My affirmative attitude, I get that from my wife.”

Dick besides revealed that he inactive exercises to enactment successful shape. “I wrote a publication called Keep Moving. I inactive spell to the gym 3 days a week and enactment out,” helium shared. “And I counsel everybody to bash that, due to the fact that that’s what ages radical — it’s conscionable a stiffening up and not exercising their muscles and their lungs. Exercise is the answer.”

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