Academy award-winning director Paul Haggis was injured in a car crash en route to an event in New York City Tuesday, reported the Toronto Sun. Haggis was bleeding from his head when he arrived at a dinner honoring the film "Spotlight," but he still managed to deliver his prepared speech.
Haggis was a passenger in a taxi headed to the La Grenouille restaurant on East 52nd Street in New York City when the cab was involved in an accident, according to the New York Post's Page Six. Event attendees noted the unfortunate event was an ironic one, since Haggis is best known for his 2004 film "Crash" starring Sandra Bullock.
"Yep, the director of 'Crash' got in a crash," joked a source, according to the New York Post.
When Haggis arrived, he had "blood gushing from his head," but he still gave a speech and toasted the "Spotlight" cast and filmmakers at the event, which was co-hosted by screenwriter Scott Frank ("Minority Report"), "Bourne Legacy" director Tony Gilroy and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films.
Haggis said "Spotlight" was "ruthlessly true" during his speech. In the Tom McCarthy-directed film, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber and Rachel McAdams portray the team of Boston Globe journalists who uncovered a child molestation scandal within the Roman Catholic Church, accoridng to IMDB.
After his speech, Haggis headed straight to an urgent care center and was sent to the emergency room to receive stitches for his head wound.
"He is fine," a rep told Page Six. "I don't know exactly how many stitches he got, but he said that the ER at NYU took good care of him."
