R&B Star D'Angelo Hospitalized After Car Crash

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R&B Star D'Angelo Hospitalized
Sep 25, 2005, 04:44 PM

R&B star D'Angelo is still hospitalized at VCU Medical Center after a September 19 car crash in Powhatan County. At last report he was listed in critical condition.

D'Angelo, whose real name is Michael E. Archer, and Lynne Sellers were in a Hummer SUV on Route 711 just west of Route 288 when the accident occurred. Around 7:45 pm the Hummer ran off the right shoulder, crossed the road, ran off the left shoulder and then slammed into a fence and flipped. D'Angelo was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the car. He was airlifted to VCU Medical Center. Sellers was wearing her seat belt and was treated for her injuries and released.

D'Angelo is hospitalized under an assumed name.


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Singer D'Angelo Critically Injured In Car Crash
09.26.2005 7:37 AM EDT

Grammy Award-winning R&B crooner D'Angelo was critically injured last week in an automobile accident along Route 711, a heavily trafficked highway in the singer's native Virginia.

D'Angelo, born Michael Eugene Archer, was transported by helicopter to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in nearby Richmond, where he's still being treated for his injuries, according to Sergeant Kevin Barrick, a Virginia State Police spokesperson.

The single-car crash happened the evening of September 19, just before 8 p.m. Barrick said that D'Angelo's 2003 Hummer, headed east on Route 711 in Virginia's Powhatan County, ran off the road and slammed into a fence before overturning.

D'Angelo, one of the founding fathers of the neo-soul movement of the 1990s and perhaps best known for his steamy track and video "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. Another person inside the Hummer, Lynne Sellers, also sustained significant injuries. She was taken by ambulance to VCU Medical Center, where she, too, remains under the supervision of medical personnel.

Police would not provide additional information on the accident, as it's still under investigation. It's not clear whether D'Angelo or Sellers was driving the SUV at the time of the crash. A spokesperson for D'Angelo could not be reached for comment.

The accident occurred one week after D'Angelo stood before a Chesterfield Circuit Court judge and pleaded no contest to one count of felony cocaine possession; the 31-year-old singer was given a three-year suspended sentence, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. D'Angelo was arrested back in January outside Richmond on drunk-driving and drug-possession charges (see "Singer D'Angelo Arrested On Charges Of Drunk Driving, Drug Possession") when, during a routine traffic stop, police discovered marijuana and cocaine inside his vehicle.

In April, D'Angelo, who hasn't released an album in more than five years, pleaded guilty in Virginia District Court to charges of marijuana possession and driving under the influence of alcohol (see "D'Angelo Pleads Guilty To Charges Of DUI, Drug Possession")

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man thats crazy..hopefully he pulls through..thanks for the news