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U.S. men's national team striker Charlie Davies is undergoing surgery on Tuesday afternoon after being in a car involved in a deadly one-car accident late Monday night that saw one passenger killed. The details of Davies' injuries are not available yet, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. (An update on Davies' condition is expected by 5pm).
The accident took place on the George Washington Parkway. Sources have confimed to SBI that this is the accident Davies was involved in. This story provides more details on the accident.
Davies was in Washington D.C. with the U.S. national team for its upcoming World Cup qualifier vs. Costa Rica on Wednesday night at RFK Stadium.
"Obviously, as a team we were saddened to learn this news," said U.S. Men's National Team head coach Bob Bradley. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie and his family, as well as the people in the car and the families of the others involved. As a team, we are relying on each other in a moment that has for sure hit us all hard."
Davies' was undergoing surgery at Washington Hospital Center in Washington D.C. He is expected to be out of surgery by 5pm, after which an update on his status is expected to be provided by U.S. Soccer.
NBC 7 in DC has a video report up from the evening news. He has a broken femur.
Thoughts and condolences to everybody involved. This is terrible news, and I say that not as a soccer fan but as a human being.
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BB has bigger issues right now. He has to lead 22 men who are currently contemplating their own mortality. I doubt he’s picking up the phone for much.
1) I think maybe Casey will be a solo striker with landon in a support role. Put torres on the left.
2) you only need to grieve for the girl who died, who most of you only acknowledge as an after thought.
3) I am kinda like Ryan and don’t get gutted over people I don’t know. Sympathies to the family of ashley but the other 2 are alive and should recover so sucks for them but at least they are alive.
I have been upset about this all day. Thank you to every who has posted encouraging thoughts and prayers. It is nice to know so many people care about what has happened.
I wish accidents like this never happened. Too many young people die tragically and are robbed of a future.
I know Davies will be okay and fight his way back onto the pitch.
USA forever.
Before everyone gets on a “must be DUI” kick, I’ve driven the GW many times and it isn’t really designed for modern traffic.
It’s old, narrow, windy with blind turns and blind hills, and everyone goes too fast. At night it’s even deadlier. There is a large local deer population. At night, you don’t need much help to get into a lot of trouble quickly. Very bad road. Condolences to the victims.
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Completely agreed. On top of all that it’s also not a very well-lighted road. The GW Parkway reminds me of the Schuylkill Expressway (nicknamed the “Sure-Kill Expressway”) in Philly. If you’re not familiar with the road you can also get distracted pretty easily with the gorgeous view of the Potomac as well, even at night. It was originally designed as a PARKway, not the major arterial road it’s become.
Condolences to everyone involved! What a horrific, sickening accident.
GW parkway is very easy to speed on. It’s also a nice route for folks coming back to Virginia from the DC bars. Why didn’t you just stay in Arlington Charlie??? I really hope it isn’t career threatening, but as for the game: Altidore w/ Casey. Future: Clint?
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Just to clear up something mentioned earlier. Wahl does mention a curfew. Check back around 9EST
Remember who scored in Mexico at the Azteca . . . yep, exactly . . . rYan you want answers, i’m sure tomorrow will bring about enough time for debate and banter,but today the “Soccer by Ives” blog grieves for its future Striker Davies!
Call BB, if you are that serious!
Guys, I hate to say it, and don’t get me wrong that I am pulling for Davies and the driver and my prayers are with the girls family, but I’m relieved that Davies wasn’t driving the car. It’s just negative press that US soccer doesn’t need at this point of time.
It didn’t really sound like you were saying “OK, we don’t have to talk about it” or whatever. It sounded like a “OK, fine whatever”.
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Look… Just realize that there’s no right or wrong way to react to tragic news or events.* Some people, upon something like this happening pour themselves into meaningful tasks for weeks to cope with it. Others take up meaningless ones, like organizing the sock drawer. Others don’t get out of bed. Most people are somewhere in the middle, but demanding a particular coping method from everyone isn’t just rude and illogical. It’s an impossible request. You’re perfectly free to tilt at that windmill if you so choose, if that’s how you want to deal with it, however.
*Obviously, being happy would be…. odd, and probably indicative of other issues.
Let’s hope Charlie can recover. He’s a great talent. My prayers go out Charlie, his family, and the family of the deceased.
Anytime man.
Thanks Gino
Take it easy on all the posters who want to discuss who will be playing tomorrow night. Obviously our wishes are all with Davies and the other people involved. However, the reason any of us care, or even know about, this incident is because of our mutual interest in soccer. Yes, some things –make that many things — are more important than sport. However, accidents like this happen to regular people every day without most people even thinking twice about it.
Also take it easy on the driver. Could have simply fallen asleep.
^ dumb post
He broke his curfew. This is why teams have curfews. I still feel bad for him but ultimatly he made his decision and now he’ll have to live with it. He picked breaking rules over being a shoo in for South AFrica he prob traded some funfor his career.
May God heal Charlie Davies and send compassion and wisdom to the family of the victim.
BTW, Rob, why are prayers pointless? They’re quite fitting for this kind of situation. They wouldn’t be fitting if they were the type that said, “God, I pray we beat (insert name of opposing team here) today.”
Grant Wahl says Davies was not driving the car
Who are we going to play is relevant because the US team has a match tomorrow. It is not too soon to ask. I represent what is wrong with America because I want to know what the team is going to do tomorrow and in the long term. This is a US soccer blog, and I want to talk about US soccer. For the record, I do think it is terrible that Charlie got hurt, that Ashley died, and that anyone suffered. You tell me where there is a memorial fund and I will give to it, but come on let’s talk about soccer. Stop posting messages that attack Mason or I because we want to talk about the US team on a US soccer blog site.
“Now back to my original point, who do we play at forward now if Charlie is going to be out???? Thoughts??? – Ryan”
Ryan,
You represent most everything that is wrong with America today. The minute or so I took to read your post and to now respond to it, is one tragically wasted minute of my life that I will never ever get back.
Come back when you grow up.
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another thing wrong with America: self righteous blowhards…Casey should get the start with altidore
Mason – What you said was “I’d hate to be Bob, but OK”. It didn’t really sound like you were saying “OK, we don’t have to talk about it” or whatever. It sounded like a “OK, fine whatever”. I’m sorry if I inferred a tone that wasn’t there. And I didn’t “bring it back up”, I was responding because, as I said, it didn’t seem like you were putting it away, so to speak.
Anyway, anyway – I think we can all agree that we all care about Charlie, and are also all worried about the team and what this will mean for them. I think when it comes down to it, we’ve all got the same concerns – we’re just processing things differently.
hey i remember seeing a sweet poster barra brava had of ben olsens face. they should get something like that going for chuck
Just watched the video on ESPN, Lalas is absolutely crushed…sounds like he is on the verge of tears.
If it is indeed a broken femur; its a serious injury but as with most injuries, there are various degrees. When I broke mine (in a car accident), I was had a tempoary rod inside my femur for a year. For the first 4 months I was on crutches, then a cane, then nothing. Towards the end I was playing competitive soccer with the rod still in place. No long term impacts. But I was on the “mild” side of the injury.
PRAYERS are more helpful now then idle speculation.
Agreed, Jimmy.
Awful road.
“Now back to my original point, who do we play at forward now if Charlie is going to be out???? Thoughts??? – Ryan”
Ryan,
You represent most everything that is wrong with America today. The minute or so I took to read your post and to now respond to it, is one tragically wasted minute of my life that I will never ever get back.
Come back when you grow up.
Look Alison. I asked. People said no. I said OK. You brought it back up.
If you had asked, instead of assuming, I would have said that I’d hate to be Bob for two reasons:
1) I just lost my best striker for god knows how long in what appears to a horrific car crash,
2) I have to convince the other 22 members of my squad to put that out of their mind and play tomorrows match against a spirited and desperate opponent.
One of these things is easy to deal with. The other is much, much harder. Which is which is left as an exercise to the reader, because there is apparently little left to say on this.
Before everyone gets on a “must be DUI” kick, I’ve driven the GW many times and it isn’t really designed for modern traffic.
It’s old, narrow,windy with blind turns and blind hills, and everyone goes too fast. At night it’s even deadlier. There is a large local deer population. At night, you don’t need much help to get into a lot of trouble quickly. Very bad road. Condolences to the victims.
Freddy’s watching it on TV like I am.
This is devastating news. Hope Charlie makes a full recovery. He has so much talent and so much to offer for US football. Our prayers are with you, your family and the family of the deceased.
What’s Freddy Adu doing tomorrow?
Just from the facts at hand, we can infer that the worst injuries were skeletal and never immediately life threatening. The fact that he was taken to Washington Hospital Center implies this. Had the injuries been neurological or immediately life threatening, he would have been at either GW (the best trauma center in town and on the way to WHC, or Inova Fairfax, the only reason to take an crisis patient to WHC from there is medevac, an ambulance to GW would be faster at that time of the morning anyway.
Of course, he could have been taken to GW and then shipped to WHC for further surgery once stabilized.
Mason – I understand that, and of course we are all concerned about the team as well, and what will happen with Charlie’s position and all that.
But a handful of other people had already come in seeming to care much more about who would replace him than about Charlie himself, and so it was getting a little bothersome. (For me, at least – I don’t mean to speak for anyone else.)
I am absolutely concerned about what this means for the team…but for me, the primary concern at this point is Charlie. I’m sure Ives will have a post up at some point with speculation about what this means for the line-up, etc etc, and that will be, I think, a more appropriate place to go into those discussions.
Man, this puts a knot in my stomach. First and foremost, our considerations and consolidations must go to the deceased. Charlie has become my favorite player. I’ve enjoyed watching him mature into the player he’s become. Hopefully someday we’ll get to see him do the stanky leg once again.
from soccer insider
@SoccerInsider: Davies out of surgery, serious condition, more details after 9 p.m. ET (the team did have a curfew last night)
Allison-
Firstly, I am not being cold about it. This is why I asked it so tentitively and then withdrew it when chastised.
Secondly, I don’t know about you, but I am perfectly capable of contemporaneously holding thoughts for the victims, and thoughts for the team in my mind. That you and others do not wish to discuss the latter does not mean that they go away.
This was posted on the Houston Chronicle website at 628pm CST
ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies was in serious condition Tuesday evening following a one-vehicle accident in which another person was killed.
Davies underwent several hours of surgery at Washington Hospital Center Medstar. Hospital spokeswoman So Young Pak said Davies’ condition was serious but offered no further details.
U.S. Soccer Federation spokesman Neil Buethe earlier said that Davies’ injuries were not life-threatening. The federation was expected to release a statement later in the evening.
Hopefully things for Charlie are better than they seem.
The Human body is so fragile and a car accident can cause so much demage to the back, neck, and brain. So lets all pray there is nothing neurologically demaged. Sure we can lament his possible loss to the USMNT but lets just hope he can walk, talk, remember, and use his limbs normally, if he plays soccer again, great. If not, how many of us can say he accomplished what he has in his brief national career. Heads up Charlie, get well.
Alison, I probably had the same curses in my head…
Watching the news reports on ESPNews, I’m feeling even more emotional about this…
Greg is reporting a broken tibia and fibula. He is in serious condition.
Though both are terrible injuries, it may be better for his career that he just has broken bones. Ligament or tendon damage would have began to deteriorate his speed and reflexes. If the bones are set correctly and everything is still attached correctly, he will hopefully make a full recovery like Cisse, Eduardo and (hopefully) Samir Nasri too. We’re all pulling for you.
This makes me sick to my stomach. Awful, awful situation.
Condolences first, you will be missed on the field Charlie Davies–best wishes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D29Oq0X_rkc&feature=fvw
I work in patient care services at a hospital, serious is the norm when someone gets out of a surgery like this. Due to HIPPA laws, the information that comes out is going to be extremley slow. There isn’t going to be any speculation. There will only be information with certainty after extensive work done by the doctors.
My prayers and thoughts are with everyone involved and most importantly with the family of the deceased. Terrible, terrible news.
This is terrible news. I’m sick to my stomach. I hope this isn’t Bobby Hurley or Jay Williams like in its affect on Davies’ career.
The supporter groups that go to the game tomorrow need to get a Charlie Davies chant/song going and videotape it. Throw it on his twitter
“Serious” means not “critical”, so as I understand it this confirms his life is not in danger. I’m no expert, though – any doctors out there please confirm.