Multiple injuries, including a broken leg, were suffered by Spinal Tap star Michael McKean when a car struck him while he was walking to a theatre.
In a critical condition, he was swiftly transported to a hospital in New York.
Yesterday, his actress wife Annette O’Toole was en route from Los Angeles to be with him.
On his way to perform in the Broadway play The Best Man, Michael, 64, was also among two others who sustained injuries.
By last night, there had been an improvement in his condition, and Michael, remembered for his role as rock singer David St Hubbins in the 1984 spoof This is Spinal Tap, was reported to be “stable.”
“It’s pretty devastating. But hopefully he will be fine,” said his publicist Harriet Sternberg.
“It’s the first time he’s missed a curtain.”
by Robbo Green
