Rock & Roll Legend David Crosby Hits Jogger with Car

David Crosby, 73, singer and songwriter who has been twice inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has hit a jogging man with his car Sunday evening in Santa Ynez, California, near where he lives.

Responding emergency personnel airlifted the victim, 46-year-old Jose Jimenez, who suffered multiple fractures, abrasions and lacerations, to a nearby hospital. His injuries are reportedly not life-threatening. Jimenez was jogging with his 14-year-old son when Crosby dinged him with the right front end of his vehicle, a 2015 Tesla, on a street near his ranch, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP) collision report. Crosby was going under the 55 mph legal speed limit in the area but he didn't see Jimenez off to his right because he was driving into the sun.

Crosby stopped after the accident, checked to see how Jimenez was doing and was cooperative with the investigators. Neither drugs nor alcohol played a role in the accident, according to the police report.  A CHP spokesperson told reporters that Jimenez was the one who was on the wrong side of the road, because California law requires pedestrians to be walking/running against traffic when they're outside of a residential or business zone and he should have been on the left.

Crosby's representative in a statement sent to Entertainment Weekly wrote: "David Crosby is obviously very upset that he accidentally hit anyone. And, based off of initial reports, he is relieved that the injuries to the gentleman were not life threatening. He wishes the jogger a very speedy recovery."

Crosby has already had a number of runs in with the law during his younger days. In 2004, he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, illegal possession of a hunting knife, illegal possession of ammunition, and illegal possession of about one ounce of marijuana. In 1985, he was arrested for drunken driving, a hit-and-run driving accident, and possession of a concealed pistol and drug paraphernalia. In 1982, he served nine months in a Texas state prison after being convicted of several drugs and weapons offenses.