Actor LeVar Burton In Car Crash, Not Seriously Injured

First Published: July 14, 2009 11:06 AM EDT Credit: Getty Images

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption LeVar Burton arrives at the 61st Annual Directors Guild of America Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on January 31, 2009 in Los AngelesLos Angeles police say actor LeVar Burton was involved in a five-car accident but wasn’t seriously injured.

Detective Judy Acosta says Burton’s 2006 Mercedes was on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles at about 7:40 p.m. Monday when a 74-year-old woman in a 2006 Scion turned left in front of him.

Acosta says the cars collided. Burton’s then hit a parked car, leading to a chain reaction that damaged two other parked cars.

Acosta says both drivers complained of pain, then were examined at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and released. Nobody was ticketed.

Burton, 52, was in the TV miniseries “Roots,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and was the longtime host of “Reading Rainbow.”

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