TV's Kyle escapes unhurt from crash

3:42pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

TV presenter Jeremy Kyle and his driver escaped unhurt when their car was involved in a crash.

The ITV talk show host was travelling as a passenger in a black BMW when it was in a crash with a Mazda MX3 in Nottinghamshire on Monday afternoon.

His dented car finished up on the central reservation of the A1 near Blyth.

The Mazda reportedly somersaulted on to the opposite carriageway and came to rest upside-down in a ditch. Its driver also escaped unscathed.

"Thank God no one was injured," said Mr Kyle. "In any accident you are shaken, but I am fine."

He was travelling north to film a special edition of his show.

An ITV spokeswoman said: "No one was hurt but he was shaken, obviously. His car was not that damaged. It was then business as normal."

Mazda driver Darren Shannon, 35, of Retford, Notts, was on his way home when the collision occurred, at about 2pm.

He told the Daily Mirror: "I was absolutely petrified. I was upside down in my car on the wrong side of the dual carriageway. If something had been coming the other way, I would have been annihilated. The emergency crews said Jeremy was shaking like a leaf."

Notts Police launched an investigation into the crash.

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