Mr Bean injured in car crash

THE actor Rowan Atkinson was taken to hospital after his car crashed, reports said. The Blackadder and Mr Bean star is believed to have suffered a shoulder injury in the incident on the A605 in Haddon, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday night. According to reports the 56-year-old was driving a McLaren F1 super car when it spun around several times, ran into a tree and a lamppost and caught fire. The actor is said to have walked from the vehicle and was with a passing motorist until emergency services arrived. East of England ambulance service said : We were called to a single vehicle road traffic collision at 7.30 tonight on the A605 at Haddon. A man was taken to hospital in Peterborough with a minor shoulder injury, a spokesman added. A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire police said: We can confirm that there was a single vehicle road traffic collision at around 7.30pm on the A605. Firefighters arrived on the scene to put out the blaze. Guardian

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