Witnesses, Pictures, and Speculation

Updates have been pouring in from various sites and news agencies.  TMZ has a picture of the accident as well as an account from a supposed witness. The picture is hard to make out, but you can tell that there’s a truck flipped over in the intersection. They also have a video up of what Shia’s truck looks like now.

E! Online states that Shia’s injuries could keep him off the set of Revenge of the Fallen for a month, and that his court date has been tentatively set for August. They also have a short clip of the scene of the accident, though it appears that Shia and the other injured parties had already gone.

MSNBC has a statement from a source close to Shia: “He really is a good kid. He’s been a star most of his life, and he made it this far before making a mistake of this magnitude, it’s way too early for anyone to be lumping him in the Disney-star-gone-bad category. He’s not going to take this lightly. Shia knows how quickly you can lose everything in Hollywood. He isn’t going to be a Lindsay Lohan.”

The Vanity Fair Cover

Vanity Fair Indiana Jones issueThe cover story about the upcoming Indy movie was extremely light on Shia (two mentions, and one of those was in a picture caption!), but the good people who put together Vanity Fair know the story doesn’t sell the magazine–the cover does!  So who gets equal space on this month’s VF cover?  None other than our boy Shia, looking good in the retro biker jacket.  There’s also an online video about the photoshoot (you can find it here), where they wisely give Shia some facetime.