Actress and stuntwoman Carrie Bernans was critically injured throughout an alleged hit and run in New York Metropolis at 1:30 AM Monday.
Bernans, whose work contains 2023’s The Shade Purple in addition to Marvel’s Black Panther and Avengers Infinity Conflict/Finish Sport, was harm together with eight others. Per her publicist, she was struck by a driver who crashed into an outside eating shed at Chirp, a Peruvian restaurant in midtown Manhattan. That driver then backed up and rammed into one other automotive earlier than officers swarmed.
Bernans lately gave beginning to a son, and fortuitously the new child toddler wasn’t along with her, however fairly in a lodge along with her household. Bernans is in a secure situation and is presently having surgical procedure. Her mother posted particulars on the traumatic incident on Instagram, and Bernans is in tough form.
“She’s nonetheless in a lot ache and may’t reply calls at the moment…She’s in a lot ache however therapeutic. She was concerned in a traumatic incident in NYC the place a person, early 40s was attempting to flee successful and run and bumped into a number of automobiles earlier than hitting a meals stand that her pal & her have been strolling close to. It ended up knocking her unconscious and pended her underneath the stand. She was underneath it unaware of what was occurring,” wrote Patricia Lee on IG.
“She has just a few damaged bones, fractures, & chipped enamel however thanking God that she’s alive. 9 folks have been injured in his tried escape from the hit & run, together with 3 law enforcement officials. Police caught him shortly after and arrested him. Amidst the chaos of the New 12 months’s incident, she’s holding onto an immense sense of gratitude for all times itself.
“This setback hasn’t deterred her perception that one thing outstanding continues to be being crafted by God. Regardless of the accidents sustained within the collision attributable to a hit-and-run in NYC, she’s full of hope and religion within the unfolding of a good looking new chapter. Please maintain her in your ideas and prayers as she navigate this path towards restoration and new beginnings” Lee thanked “all the primary responders, police, strangers, my pal Katherine, household & associates who’s helped her.”
