LATEST: A passenger in the car rapper CASSIDY was travelling in when it was involved in an accident with a truck has spoken about the horror in the immediate aftermath of the crash.
GRADY SPIVEY, the rapper's A&R representative, reveals how he called emergency services after finding Cassidy's motionless body after the New Jersey smash on Wednesday (04OCT06).
Cassidy - real name BARRY REESE - was one of four people in a sports utility vehicle which was hit by what was at first believed to be a U-Haul truck.
He suffered a fractured skull and many bones in the left side of his face were broken. The star was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where he was in a critical condition, but has now stabilised.
Spivey tells AllHipHop.com, ""We were on our way to pick up the producer NEO 'THE MATRIX', listening to Cassidy music - he was freestyling, we were having a good time.
"We were on Manhattan Avenue in Jersey City, and there comes a truck. I'm talking to Cassidy and we hear the driver say, 'Oh s**t, a truck!' "It wasn't a U-Haul truck. It was a commercial truck, the size of a large U-Haul truck. This truck runs the red light, out of nowhere crosses the intersection out of control and crashes into the left side of our SUV vehicle, hitting from the back of the driver on down.
"Cassidy was seated directly behind the driver, so he got the full blunt-force impact. That's why he has a fractured skull and broken bones in his face - he was thrown from his seat.
"I was bleeding all over myself. I jumped out the car and saw him laying there. I picked him up, there was no life, no movement in his body. I put him on the seat and immediately called 911. I was feeling panic, feeling nervous, but I'm a spiritual man and God put calm over my body.
"He started choking on his blood and vomit and I turned him on his side so he wouldn't choke. Fortunately enough, he is living. God allowed all four of us to live."