Jayson Williams Crashed SUV Into Tree

Former able basketball brilliant Jayson Williams was aching aboriginal Tuesday back he allegedly comatose a action account agent into a tree, a backer for the New York Badge Department told CNN.

Williams’ atramentous Mercedes hit the timberline at a aerial acceleration afterwards departure the FDR Drive in Manhattan about 3:15 a.m., the backer said. He is in abiding action afterwards actuality taken to Bellevue Hospital with accessory injuries, she said.

Witnesses told badge they saw Williams, the alone being in the vehicle, move from the driver’s bench to the passenger’s bench afore badge arrived. Badge said they were investigating whether booze was a agency in the crash.

Williams, who retired from able basketball because of injuries in 1999, played the aftermost years of his career with the New Jersey Nets.

He was accepted for his airy skills, and averaged 8 credibility and 12 rebounds per bold for the 30 amateur he played in the 1998-99 season, according to the National Basketball Association’s Web site.

He is apprehension retrial on assassination accuse accompanying to the cutting afterlife of his auto disciplinarian in 2002, and he has had added run-ins with the law back then.