Legendary singer-actress Eartha Kitt says the superior construction of her Range Rover is what saved her from being injured in Thursday’s rollover accident in Westport, the New York Post reported today. 
Eartha Kitt describes Thursday’s accident to a Westport police officer. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) 2004 WestportNow.com
The 77-year-old Weston resident was returning from a jog on the beach when her SUV was “nipped in the derriere” and flipped over at Post Road East and Compo Road North, she told the newspaper.
She and her two toy poodles were shaken up but not seriously injured.
The Post Friday published exclusive photos of the accident from WestportNow.
“Thank God for that car. I don’t think I’ll ever drive another,” Kitt said.
She said she also has new respect for truck drivers because the first good samaritan on the scene was a trucker who found her strapped into the driver’s seat, upside down.
“He said, ‘Are you all right?’ I said, ‘Just get me out of this seat belt,’ ” Kitt told the Post. She invited her rescuer to see one of her forthcoming shows with his wife.
Kitt, who was transported on a stretcher to Norwalk Hospital by Westport EMS as a precaution, said the doctor at the hospital didn’t believe her when she told him her age. “You can’t be serious,” he told her, according to the Post.
Westport police said the accident is still under investigation.
Both Kitt and the driver of a 2002 Mercedes who clipped the right rear of her car said they had a green light at the time of the accident, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
The source said police have been unable to come up with witnesses to the crash, which occurred at 9:13 a.m., despite busy traffic in the area.
Kitt’s car landed upside down in the grassy strip alongside the Peoples Bank at the northeast corner of the intersection. Both vehicles had to be towed from the scene.
she’s so dumb… if it wasn’t for the Range Rover, maybe her car wouldn’t have flipped over in the first place!
SUVs suck, and so do the drivers.