O.J.'s Girlfriend Hit By Car, Badly Hurt

showbuzz.cbsnews ^ | May 14, 2008 | showbuzz.cbsnews

[Main Street]

(CBS) O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, who had been hospitalized in February after a fall, was back in the hospital, this time with two broken legs and other serious injuries, CBS4 in Miami reported.

Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pat Santangelo said Christie Prody was injured early Saturday morning on the Don Shula Expressway near Miller Drive after she pulled over to an emergency lane because she had two flat tires on her 2-door Mitsubishi.

Police say she rode on the flat tires for quite a distance because one of the tires was completely shredded and the other had come off the rim completely.

For an unknown reason, Prody, 32, got out of her car and tried to cross the highway. Santangelo says she nearly made it across but about two thirds of the way, she was hit by an oncoming car. Her head and arms went through that car's windshield and she landed inside the vehicle with her legs sticking out. The driver stopped and called 911 immediately.

She was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital where Santangelo says she was still being treated Wednesday for broken legs and other serious injuries.

Santangelo says Prody was cited for "being a pedestrian on an expressway" which is against the law.

Troopers found an empty bottle of Smirnoff vodka on her front seat. While toxicology reports are not back, police say she won't be charged with DUI because she was not at the wheel of the vehicle when the crash occurred.

A responding officer also found her pet dog, a Shitzu, in the vehicle after the crash. The dog was taken to a safe shelter until her family could pick it up.

In February, Prody was hospitalized with a severe head injury after she slipped and fell at a Miami gas station.

[angcat]

Arnelle looks like a frumpy women.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"riding on 2 rims sounds like she was running from someone. odds of getting 2 flats at one time ????"

Precisely my line of thought. Was there a spat and her tires were punctured to keep her from retreating? Or did she happen to run over a bucket of nails on the road? Chances are ...

[Designer]

While toxicology reports are not back, police say she won't be charged with DUI because she was not at the wheel of the vehicle when the crash occurred.

This is pure B-S!

Unless someone can prove the dog was behind the wheel.

And WHAT "crash", anyway?

I tell ya, give a "D" student a reporter's credential, and you never know what you'll end up with.

[gibsosa]

And no doubt, real ones!!

[Designer]

"..severe head injury after she slipped and fell at a Miami gas station."

Darn those slippery gas stations!

[kcvl]

O.J. Simpson had just been found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her acquaintance, Ron Goldman, when a 20-year-old tourist from Minnesota stopped to see his home in Brentwood, Calif.

Her uncle, Steve Bellmore, told NBC she was a shy girl from St. Anthony, a small town in Minnesota, who went to the University of Minnesota but dropped out before her senior year and became a cocktail waitress.

she’s been living with him in a $1.1-million four-bedroom home with an outdoor basketball court and a big in-ground pool in the Kendall section of Miami. Though they’ve never been engaged, they live together as if they were married.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Is OJ taking another stab at it?

We pros only get one broken bone after a car hits us.

[windcliff]

Wow. Is she unlucky or what?

[reagan_fanatic]

“If the windshield doesn't fit, you must acquit.”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Creepy! It looks like OJ makes the new girlfriend paint her eyebrows into the exact same shape as Nicole’s eyebrows.

Sounds a lot like Hitchcock's Vertigo, except that OJ is no Jimmy Stewart.

[Kackikat]

ROFL

[Kackikat]

As long as the Viagra holds out, it’s what they live for..sad

[Jeff Chandler]

Made it halfway across in 5 seconds...flat.

[BunnySlippers]

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[PLMerite]

“Does anyone else notice her resemblance to Nicole Brown?”

I would think any woman with brains would bolt upon hearing OJ say,”you remind me of my late wife.”

But I have a feeling this one never had to get by on brain power either.

[MarkL]

It’s just proof that for every idiot in the world, there is someone stupider who wants to date them.

Is there a database, or a telephone listing or something... I've been lonely.

Mark

[commonguymd]

OMG - that had me laughing out loud.

[commonguymd]

What a couple of nice looking, friendly looking women. The two look like good dinner company.

[uncitizen]

Did OJ just happen to be driving that same road at the time?

I’m curious about this prior “falling” accident she had. Sure people fall down all the time, but young people don’t usually end up hospitalized because of it.

[uncitizen]

You’re not serious are you? Is this really the girlfriend?