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US Soccer Star Hospitalized in Fatal Car Crash

Charlie Davies sustains multiple fractures, another passenger dead

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 12:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Charlie Davies, a starting forward on the US national soccer team, broke several bones and sustained a lacerated bladder in a car crash yesterday that killed another passenger. The driver, who was not identified, swerved into a guardrail outside of Washington, leaving the car "pretty much split in half," according to a police spokesman. Davies is hospitalized with two fractures in his right leg, plus facial and elbow fractures. He will almost certainly not play in next summer's World Cup, which the US qualified for last weekend.

Charlie Davies, right, runs for the ball followed by Trinidad and Tobago's Radanfah Abu Bakr during a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
Charlie Davies, right, runs for the ball followed by Trinidad and Tobago's Radanfah Abu Bakr during a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.   (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The US Soccer Federation says Davies was in stable condition and that his injuries are not life-threatening, but required more than 5 hours of surgery.
The US Soccer Federation says Davies was in stable condition and that his injuries are not life-threatening, but required more than 5 hours of surgery.   (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
Davies was injured in a single-car accident in the Washington area in which one person died early Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009.
Davies was injured in a single-car accident in the Washington area in which one person died early Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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RussellBell
Oct 14, 2009 3:13 AM CDT
Sucks.

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