Minnie Driver is "so grateful to be alive" after she and her friend Ben Homewood were involved in a "really bad" car crash while driving on a country road in France. "I got into a really bad car accident a few days ago with my friend Ben, and we somehow walked out of it. I've got a sprained neck, and I'm really in shock, and sort of cry all the time, but I'm gonna heal. "The fact that the entire car didn't just concertina and crush us is down to the design of that car, which is, frankly, astonishing." "Thank you to my friends, my family, all the people at work and especially my friend Ben and his family.