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Melbourne Rebels stars, Danny Cipriani and Kurtley Beale, along with injured Wallaby and Queensland Reds flyhalf Quade Cooper, have reportedly been involved in a car accident last Friday night in Melbourne.
Fairfax reports that the Super Rugby players were driving to Cipriani’s home when their car failed to negotiate a corner, running into a garden and hitting a parked car.
It is understood that no one was injured in the accident.
A spokeman for the Rebels told Fairfax that the club “was aware of a minor traffic incident on Friday and the club was assisting the police with investigation.”
The incident has captured attention given Cipriani’s well-documented party lifestyle, which caused him to be stood-down from the Rebels in 2011, with Beale also under scrutiny, having yet to play for the Rebels and likely to miss his team’s opener against the Waratahs with a hamstring injury.
Cooper has been recuperating from a serious knee injury that he suffered playing for Australia at the World Cup last year, and was in Melbourne having been granted leave after supporting his Reds team-mates in their clash against the Waratahs in Sydney.
Reds chief executive Jim Carmichael told Fairfax that he had “no concerns” about Cooper, despite the incident occurring just a month after he was evicted from a pub on Stradbroke Island after an altercation with a local man and his girlfriend.
Carmichael said he was not aware of Cooper being involved in the accident, but that he had been granted permission to spend the weekend in Melbourne.
‘‘Until Quade Cooper does something that isn’t right, I take the view that they are role models and they are expected to do this and that but they are still young men who go out,’’ said Carmichael.
‘‘He’s gone away for the weekend and he’s been back here on Monday and that for us is as deep as it is unless something comes in the next couple of days that says otherwise. I have not seen anything that tells me there’s been any issues.’”
A Rebels’ spokesman said the club was aware of a minor traffic incident on Friday and that the club was assisting the police with investigation.
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