Dick Van Dyke crashes his car into a gate in Malibu

Hollywood fable Dick Van Dyke reportedly mislaid power of his car and crashed into a gross connected Wednesday morning, TMZ archetypal reported.

The 97-year-old is said to person mislaid power of the instrumentality of his Lexus implicit bedewed streets successful Malibu, California, precocious drenched by rain.

Bruised and bloodied, the Mary Poppins prima appears to person lone suffered "minor injuries", constabulary said.

He was treated astatine the country by medics and past brought location by a friend.

Police officers person said drugs and intoxicant are not suspected to beryllium progressive successful the accident.

However, it has been reported that constabulary submitted documents to the Department of Motor Vehicles for him to retake his driving test, owed to his near-centenarian status.

Dyke's Hollywood vocation spans implicit 7 decades betwixt film, tv and theatre. His accolades see Golden Globe, Tony and Grammy awards.

Although the highest of his vocation climaxed successful the 1960s - erstwhile helium starred successful Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - past period Dyke appeared connected TV screens yet again arsenic the oldest contestant ever to execute connected Fox's singing contest, The Masked Singer.

This is not the actor's archetypal adjacent call. In 2013, helium was rescued from a burning car connected the California freeway. He did not prolong immoderate superior injuries.

He aboriginal humorously tweeted a representation of the burned-out car with the caption: "Used Jag for merchantability REAL CHEAP!!"

In 2010, successful an interrogation with Craig Ferguson, the then-84-year-old recalled an incidental wherever helium drifted retired to oversea aft helium fell dormant atop his surfboard. In an incidental that could person been a country chopped from Mary Poppins: Beach Vacation, helium said a radical of affable purposes helped propulsion his committee person to shore.