Charlie Davies seriously injured in car accident – Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Early Tuesday morning American striker Charlie Davies was seriously injured in a car accident. The extend of his injuries and the long-term effect are not known. The details are slowly coming out but more should be known in the next few days. Will Davies be able to recover and could this be career threatening? It’s not known but Davies is a rising star in Europe (playing for Ligue 1 side Sochaux) and the National Team. Here are a few excerpts from sites reporting on the story.
Charlie Davies seriously injured in car accident
USA Soccer’s Official Website – http://www.ussoccer.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 13, 2009) – U.S. National Soccer Team forward Charlie Davies is in stable condition following injuries sustained in a one-car accident on the George Washington Parkway early Tuesday morning in Northern Virginia. There was one fatality in the accident.
Davies is currently undergoing surgery at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. U.S. Soccer will release additional information when it becomes available.
Associated Press – http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXg9GmtvAAT_E0p9LryKwtQFlYLQD9BAEJK03
ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies was injured in a one-car accident in which another person was killed early Tuesday in the Washington, D.C., area.
Davies was expected to undergo more than five hours of surgery. U.S. Soccer Federation spokesman Neil Buethe said Davies’ injuries were not life-threatening but “possibly” career-threatening, but he added: “We don’t know specifically what the surgery is for.”
“Obviously, as a team we were saddened to learn this news,” U.S. coach Bob Bradley said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie and his family, as well as the other person in the car and the families of the others involved. … We are relying on each other in a moment that has for sure hit us all hard.”
U.S. Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser said the accident took place at about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in the southbound lanes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia. Schlosser identified the fatality as Ashley J. Roberta, 22, of Phoenix, Md.
Schlosser said there were three people in the car, and that Roberta was not the driver. Davies and the other person in the car were taken to Washington Hospital Center Medstar, one by land and one by helicopter. Schlosser did not say who was driving the car, and the cause of the accident remained under investigation.
NY Times – http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/charlie-davies-seriously-injured-in-car-accident/
U.S. men’s national team forward Charlie Davies was seriously injured in a car accident early Tuesday morning in Virginia. Davies spent more than three hours in surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., according to a U.S. Soccer spokesman. Another person in the car was killed.
“Obviously, as a team we were saddened to learn this news,” said Coach Bob Bradley, in a statement posted on the U.S. Soccer Web site. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie and his family, as well as the people in the car and the families of the others involved. As a team, we are relying on each other in a moment that has for sure hit us all hard.”
Ashley Roberta, of Phoenix, Md., was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington, Va. Another woman traveling in the car was taken to Washington Hospital Center for treatment after the car the three were traveling in struck a metal guardrail on a stretch of road between the Memorial Bridge and the Pentagon around 3:15 a.m., said U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser.
It was unclear who was driving the car, but Michael Kammarman, a U.S. Soccer spokesman, said no other members of the American team or U.S. staff were involved. Davies parents were en route to Washington from San Diego.
