Tyson Beckford injured in car crash

[model_mom]

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/6705-ent-supermodelinjured.html

 

[CitraBenzoet]

f***

 

[pointup]

prayers to him and his family .. poor tyson

 

[Sloan]

I hope that he is better soon.

 

[oceanharlot]

hope he's gonna be ok

 

[LoveKylie]

...hope everything will turn out alright!

 

[jssy4eva]

i hope he's ok

 

[CelineChic]

I hope he gets better soon.

ANd I know this may sound inappropriate at the time but DAMN he's good looking!

 

[*Happiness*]

I hope everything is alright and he wasn't drunk or anything.

 

[Spike413]

that's terrible, best wishes to him.

 

[Bluestar07]

I hope he gets better soon.

ANd I know this may sound inappropriate at the time but DAMN he's good looking!

I know CelineChic!!!!! I fell in love with him the first time I saw him on the ad. Quite the epitome of hunkiness and manliness and ....

I really, really hope he's fine How scary is that ... your car going up in flames and you just managed to escape.

 

[model_mom]

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<H1 class=red>Hospital photo of supermodel gets two fired

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 By BONNIE FRIEDMAN

JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Two Jersey City Medical Center workers were fired after cell-phone pictures of a battered and bruised Tyson Beckford appeared in a newspaper earlier this month.

The supermodel was at the Medical Center June 6 after his truck skidded into a utility pole on Route 3 in Secaucus. The next day, a blurry photograph of the model lying in his hospital bed was published by the New York Daily News.

Erica Thomas, 37, a former registration clerk, said she was fired June 8, even though she didn't take the picture.

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According to Thomas, Beckford was wheeled into the trauma unit sometime around 6 a.m. on June 6, but the hunky patient refused to divulge his name for the registration form.

Thomas said she got the patient's driver's license from a nurse and immediately recognized the name and face as the model for Ralph Lauren's Polo Sport.

Though she admitted spreading the news to her co-workers, Thomas said word would have gotten out because hospital personnel decided to leave Beckford in the middle of the trauma unit with the curtains open rather than transfer him to a private room.

The picture appeared in the newspaper the next day, and she said she was immediately suspected of having taken it. However, she said, she turned her cell phone over to investigators, who determined she didn't use it to shoot the photo.

Thomas said she believes someone from the housekeeping staff took the picture and even identified the person she believes to be the culprit to hospital officials. Nevertheless, she was fired.

"One selfish act cost me my job," she said. "And I am an innocent bystander."

A copy of the letter sent to Thomas simply states: "Please be advised that your employment is terminated due to inappropriate conduct."

Bill Dauster, a spokesman for the Jersey City Medical Center, said two workers were dismissed in connection with Beckford's stay at the hospital, but he refused to comment further, nor to identify the other person fired. Thomas said she wasn't aware that another person also had been fired.

Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Daily News, said a confidential source contacted the newspaper with the photograph. The source, she said, was paid for the picture. Murphy declined to say how much the

 

[Cammy]

thats a terrible thing to do, take photos of some while they are in hospital. I hope his injuries weren't too bad.

 

[Acid]

hes throwing a party tomorrow in london so i guess hes ok now

 

[Sloan]

^ Good to see that he is better.

 

[Diamond Star]

that's so awful that those pictures were taken Hope he's a lot better now

 

[meowmix]

glad to hear he is okay...

 

[Assembler]

Poor girl who lost her job.