Sports Thread #2 For 10/13/09: Charlie Davies Seriously Hurt in Car Crash That Kills 1

Awful news rocking the soccer world right now:

U.S. soccer forward Charlie Davies was in surgery on Tuesday afternoon after being involved in a severe one-car accident on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
There was a fatality in the accident, said U.S. Soccer spokesman Neil Buethe. He added that Davies was in stable condition and that his injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Thank God that he is alive after hearing this.

Thoughts and prayers are with this guy who had truly emerged as a key player not only on the US team, but one of the better young strikers in all of Ligue 1 in France.

Just awful news for the Davies family and US Soccer in general.

Updated: The Washington Post great soccer writer Steve Goff highlights how even more tragic this event has before:

According to Goff, Davies is currently in surgery after suffering injuries that are "not life threatening." WTOP reported that the collision, which occurred at about 3:15 a.m., claimed at least one fatality and seriously injured two others.

And there are some reports indicating that Davies career could be over because of this injury.

Just terrible, terrible, terrible.

Just stunning how he survived that car crash, just stunning.

This just really blows for any person in any incident like this of course. But gosh, this really just upsets my stomach completely.