Haley Joel Osment, as we're all fully aware, can see dead people. If only he could see roadside mailboxes as well then he wouldn't be laid up in hospital like he is now. Because yesterday Haley Joel Osment flipped his car right over one.

Wait a minute, Haley Joel Osment can drive a car? But he's only about six years old – no wonder he crashed it to pieces so spectaculary. There's a lesson here for all of us, not least Haley Joel Osment, and that's never ever to use any of the Baldwin brothers as a role model for your own life.

There must be something in the air this week – it's stopping every single celebrity on the face of the planet from being able to drive normally for even a short amount of time. Everyone's at it, and by 'everyone' we mean Daniel Baldwin and the kid from The Sixth Sense. Daniel Baldwin smashed his car up while doing 80mph in a 35mph a couple of days ago, and yesterday Haley Joel Osment did something frighteningly similar.

Now, we know how we'd spend our time if we were Haley Joel Osment. We'd cruise round LA slowly in our car with the windows down screaming "Look, it's me! Haley Joel Osment! The kid from The Sixth Sense! Driving a friggin' car! How old do you feel now, grandpa?" at passers-by or, if we were in a bad mood, "I wasn't just in The Sixth Sense, you bastards! I was in AI too! And that thing with Michael Caine that nobody saw!" But when has Haley Joel Osment ever listened to us?

Instead, Haley Joel Osment decided to lose control of his 1995 Saturn at 1am yesterday, veer off into a mailbox on a brick base and flip his car over. Following the accident, according to police, Haley Joel Osment was alert and talkative, although we'd expect that he was probably doing his trademark haunted-youth thing a bit too. After being taken to Huntington Hospital, doctors noticed that Haley Joel Osment had broken a rib and hurt his shoulder in the car smash. Doctor Paul Gilbert says:

"He's pretty uncomfortable and resting. He just wants to let everyone know he's going to be OK… I'm sure blood samples were taken but I don't have a comment on that."

What's the world coming to lately? We've already almost lost the rubbishest one of the Baldwins and the weirdly emotionless kid from AI to the dangers of the road. It's a bad time to be very slightly famous, and if we were that Agent Cody Banks boy, we'd be totally shitting it right now.

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Haley Joel Osment injured in car crash – People

[story by Stuart Heritage]