The Write Up: DRIVING MISS DAISY ALMOST TURNS TRAGIC DRIVING MISS DAISY ALMOST TURNS TRAGIC ================================================================================ thewriteup on 24 August, 2008 09:59:00 Academy Award winner, Morgan Freeman escaped the jaws of death after a near fatal car accident. Now he’s facing a divorce from his longtime wife of 24 years from whom he has been separated since last year. The chick who was riding with Morgan Freeman when he drove into a ditch and flipped the car is Demaris Meyer. It was her car and she’s a "close friend" of Morgan’s wife Myrna. Incidentally, the National Enquirer ran a story in July about Myrna seeking a divorce from Morgan claiming, "Myrna was terribly upset when she heard Morgan had become intimate with a woman who had been her friend."