After spending several weeks in Fiji and surrounding islands, Mel Gibson returned to the LA area over the weekend. And then he promptly got into a bizarre car accident. According to reports, Mel was driving his Maserati in Malibu last night, and he basically drove into a “rocky hillside”. The cops are already saying that alcohol wasn’t involved… so… um, I guess it was just a standard car accident?
Mel Gibson acclimated back into L.A. life by getting into a car accident yesterday … this according to law enforcement sources.
Sources tell TMZ it happened at 8:35 PM in Malibu. Gibson, we’re told, lost control of his car and ended up striking the rocky hillside on Malibu Canyon Road.
Gibson was driving a 2008 Maserati, which had to be towed from the scene.
Hours before the crash — photogs shot footage of Gibson driving the Maserati around Malibu.
According to the CHP report, obtained by TMZ, “For unknown reasons, Mr. Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside. He stopped his car at the scene and was contacted by officers from the West Valley CHP Area.”
CHP Public Information Officer Leland Tang tells TMZ … “Gibson told officers in the field he did not know how the car drifted out of the lane and into the hillside.” Tang said his officers followed up by asking Gibson if he was on a cell phone and he said no. Tang adds officers also asked Gibson if he had dozed off “but he did not give a firm ‘yes’ or ‘no’.” Gibson just repeated several times, “I don’t know how the car left the roadway.”
The report goes on, “Mr. Gibson supplied all the pertinent information to the officers at the scene, gave a statement, and received a ride home from a friend.”
Gibson was not hurt. According to the report, “DUI is not suspected in the accident.”
UPDATE: As for the curious statement in the report … “For unknown reasons, Mr. Gibson steered his car to the right and struck the rock hillside.” Tang tells TMZ his department was in no way trying to insinuate Gibson did it intentionally. Tang says, “It was totally an unintentional act.” And Tang says no citation was issued and no charges will be filed.
[From TMZ]
My conspiracy theorist’s tin foil hat is already on. Was it intentional, like a suicide attempt? Eh. Doubtful, in my mind. Was he drinking or under the influence of something? Perhaps, I tend to think that’s a solid possibility. Was he stone cold sober and simply enraged about something like blow jobs and placenta trees and depositions? Perhaps, another solid possibility. Or was he just sober, in solid mental health, and he just lost control of his fancy sports car? Eh. Theories?
WTF?! This is starting to look really suspect.
On top of everything else shitty he’s done, he had to wreck my favorite kind of car. That’s it, I’m officially Team Oksana.
um, how fast was he driving? I bet he was speeding that Maserati down a curvy road.
Remember he thinks he’s indestructible.
Him and Charlie Sheen seem to be reading from the same book.
Oh yea I regularly drive my car over a cliff or into boulders. Just another weekend excursion.
maybe he wanted to manufacture a sympathy situation?
@ a: EXACTLY what I was thinking!
wow, i just noticed the cute twinkle in his eyes back in the day. His eyes now seem kinda crazy looking.
How comes everytime there is a story about Mel, Kaiser only shows pictures of Crazy ass Dingo Mel…are you trying to influence the jury Kaiser?…if so genius! You clever bitch ;p
things that make you go hmmmm.
Jeez that’s one of the most expensive cars available isn’t it? If he wrecked it on purpose then I’d say suicide attempt. But it seems more likely that he lost control. He seems too into himself to try to commit suicide.
He used to be so good looking. Now not so much.
How could the police be sure it wasn’t intentional?
He was “treated” by a hypnotist; hypnotism can be dangerous to mental illness Mel has along with playing the role he played in the Beaver I think Mel’s mental state is severely deteriotating – he might be blacking out. I would not put it past him he (subconsciously) would want to commit suicide, it’s only understandable in his situation; he can’t deal with his guilt/shame.
I’m more shocked by the news that this guys still has friends.
And yeah, he’s never seemed particularly ashamed or embarassed or humbled by any of his actions. Actually, quite the opposite, he’s always seemed very arrogant. A contrite man would not be relaxing and partying in after what he put his family through.
I’m going to go with speeding and driving recklessly.
This guy is the ultimate sinner HE FUCKING CRASHES A MASARATI! ….this is what makes me cry. …fucker crashed a masaerati…burn in hell you unforgivable sinner!!!!! OH THE INHUMANITY AND UTTER BLASPHAMY.
My theory is he needed some more attention. This is like a serious cry for help. The man oughta be taken in on a 5150.
He prolly lost control of his car. Ive seen every type of crash where a douchebag with his ego gets behind the wheel of a car he cant handle and finds out the hard way he cant drive it. The worst are the Bugatti crashes, since those cars are a million apiece and reduced to a pile of crap.
With Mel, anything is possible & nothing should be ruled out.
He was probably so distraught over losing his baby’s nanny…
Was it because of…the golf club? Anybody else see the similarity? I’ll go with driving too fast and being a jerk.
@Kaiser, the conspiracy theories are a hoot-keep ’em coming!
He can’t be that hard up for money, can he?
Maybe the wall was Jew. Or Latin. Black…?
Well seeing how the accident involved the self-proclaimed owner of Malibu, sufficed to say the police will gladly turn a blind eye when Gibson tells them to.
Yup, has all the earmarks of self-harming.
DISCLAIMER: Don’t like Mel at all…
That being said, I’ve drove Malibu Canyon road a lot and it is an extra curvy road and can be really dangerous going slightly over the speed limit even! And no drinking would need to be involved to do this.
I’d hazard a guess he was speeding in his fancy car and lost control and hit the canyon wall. It would be too easy to do!
I don’t think he’s ever been of “solid mental health”!
Sounds fishy to me – how do you not know what happened? He probably was speeding and just lost control and doesn’t want to admit it.
@a & Solitary, I kind of thought the same thing too when reading it!
Let’s have a moment of silence for the car. *bows head*
*bows head*
Alcoholic crashes car. MASSIVE SURPRISE.
Before anyone starts: my dad was an alcoholic for around 30 years, been off the sauce for four now. Very proud of him, of course, but I have no illusions about what alcoholics are capable of. Great feats of stupidity are popular.
Oh, and yes, they said no alcohol was involved. Maybe it’s just me but…bollocks.
Why did the car have to die?
The car was innocent!! What did the car ever do to Mel Gibson?! All it ever wanted was to be driven!!!! You DRIVE a Maserati YOU DRIVE IT.
YOU DONT FUCKING KILL IT!!!
first a DUI for mel, now a DWBC for mel: driving while batshit crazy.
Rest in pieces, poor Maserati!
I’m guessing he’s planning to blame the Jews again.
crazy mofo that he is.
Just on something another commenter said earlier – I actually have hypnotherapy occassionally and find it very helpful. You really never go far enough to lose control of yourself (my last therapist said that you shouldn’t anyway).
But back on topic. It could have been worse.
It could have been a Bugatti Veyron *runs away from the Masarati fans*
*chases mairead with a really really big 2by4*
-is obviously a maserati fan-
did he perform a field sobriety test? take a breathalyzer? hard core alcoholics often don’t “appear” drunk. sounds like the police gave him a giant pass on this one.
Thank God he did not have the baby in the car.
nothing better as an alibi than a police report; I wonder if something else went down around the same time? ooooh.
yay conspiracy theories!
i wonder if he screamed out “first you will smile and blow me!” before running into the hillside.
conspiracy theory= he planned it so he’d have a good coverup that he wasn’t around when his daughters babysitter mysteriously died of “cancer”…when, in fact, he hired someone to poison her & paid some people off to say she had “cancer”…hmmm…
no disrespect to the poor girl intended of course, but it seems like a possible theory for such a scumbag as Mel Gibson :/
Aw… When I read the headline I was hoping someone tried to take him out….
I doubt he was drunk or the PD would give him a pass. Does 2006 ring a bell to anyone? They busted him then and they’d bust his ass again, as well they should. They seem to hand out PLENTY of DUIs in Cali to celebs.
I’m not a particular Maserati fan, but aw, poor car 🙁
Either he was on something (booze, pills, model paint), or he tried to seriously injure himself for sympathy. I don’t think he was trying to kill himself. I think he just wanted a nice cut on his forehead, a broken arm, and a pathetic limp maybe.
I really hope they performed a booze test on him at the scene. Unless… Was the wall a black Jewish lesbian perhaps? Actually, he’s been acting so crazy, I wouldn’t be surprised if he HAD thought he’d seen one and swerved at her…
I used to live up in the hills of Malibu. You people would not believe those roads – they are epic. People bring their cars and motorcycles from all over just to ride those roads (yeah, it was real fun to listen to on the weekends) and there were always a lot of crashes. No streetlights, VERY windey, the roads are cut right into the side of the mountain. So – he’s very lucky he drove into the side of the mountain instead of off the side where they might not have found him for years. It’s happened before.
@ dawn – LMAO!
LAChris & CRASH2GO2 are right. Unless you’ve driven on the roads in and around Malibu, you can’t really appreciate just how treacherous they can be to navigate. The sun was also setting out here on the West Coast between 8:10 & 8:30 p.m. which is around the time the car accident occurred. Any combination of factors could have caused it including monetarily taking your eyes off the road while driving around a narrow, sharp curve. It’s not unusual for someone to become slightly drowsy around sunset while driving because it has even happened to me recently.
At this time mysterious men are being dispatched from the Maserati factory in Modena, Italy to exact retribution upon Mel Gibson.
Who f*&king cars about this ass pipe.
Prescription Drugs of course.
Remember the guy Mel used to be when he did that film “What Women Want” lol
What happened to that guy?
reminds of Joerge Haider car crash in Austria, quite suspicious for someone outspoken against Israel. Advice to Mel – don’t visit any Dubai hotels for a while.
Jetlag might have played a part in His Whackjob’s accident.
Unlike freeways, driving in Malibu’s a lot trickier as there are many curves in the road, Mel is hardly the first celebrity to have crashed or met an accident there, a famous plastic surgeon even died there because he was allegedly texting while driving! As for the cause of the crash, I would think that since the authorities have ruled out alcohol, he was likely overspeeding and lost control of the car.