Actor Shia Lebeouf Booked In Suspected D.U.I. Accident

Stock Ford-150 pick-up trucks, Indy 4 and Transformers star Shia LeBeouf learned to his regret early Sunday morning, aren't made for going airborne like CG and stunt cars.

The actor was trying to make a left turn at the (somewhat notorious for its fender-smashers) West Hollywood intersection of La Brea and Fountain around 3 a.m. when his pick-up collided with a second vehicle, the Associated Press reported. His truck rolled and landed upside down, and was shown looking battered on local television.

LeBoeuf, who has injuries to a knee and hand (the latter serious enough to necessitate surgery), was booked on suspicion of  D.U.I. but freed on "field release" to have his injuries attended to at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where he was reported to still be Sunday night. His unnamed woman passenger was reported to be uninjured.

The unidentified couple in the second vehicle suffered various injuries, or so they volunteered to Fox News in a phone call.

LeBeouf's misdemeanor D.U.I. was a result, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Wolf said, of a quick realization at the accident location:
"It was immediately apparent to officers responding on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated and he was subsequently placed under arrest," Wolf said.

LeBeouf, 22, a fast-rising young star who was in the break-out hit Disturbia before going on to work for Steven Spielberg opposite Harrison Ford in the worldwide hit Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull and subsequently with car-crash expert Michael Bay in the Spielberg-produced Transformers, was raised in uneven middle class circumstances in Los Angeles (His since-reformed father was a "grifter", Disturbia director D.J. Caruso told Vanity Fair earlier this year, ").

The actor made the tabloids in a February, 2005 incident in Studio City in which he pulled a knife on a surly neighbor who purportedly menaced his mother, and subsequently was in the news for an inebriated confrontation with guards in a Chicago Walgreen's late last year, leading to a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge.

He joshed that incident away to David Letterman on The Late Show by saying,
"Drinking and driving is one thing, but drinking and shopping ... it's just as bad."

He's likely to find out very soon that the California John Laws feel a bit differently about that.