Minnie Driver says she is lucky to be alive after surviving a terrifying car crash in France that left her wearing a neck brace and struggling to process what happened.

The Good Will Hunting star, 56, shared an emotional Instagram video on Thursday, Aug. 6, revealing that she and her friend Ben were involved in a “really bad car accident” several days earlier.

Speaking from a bed in London, Driver appeared shaken as she explained how the frightening collision unfolded on a country road in the middle of France.

“We somehow got out of it alive,” she said.

Driver stressed that she and Ben were not responsible for the wreck. According to the actress, another driver failed to stop at an intersection and entered the roadway at high speed.

“We were driving on a country road in the middle of France, and a car didn’t stop at an intersection and was going at speed, and we just T-boned it,” she explained.

The Oscar-nominated star said she suffered a sprained neck but was otherwise doing “fine.” However, the emotional impact of the crash has been much harder to shake.

Driver admitted she remains “really in shock” and has been crying frequently as her mind continues to replay the terrifying moment.

“I’m going to heal,” she assured her followers.

The actress credited the vehicle she was traveling in, a Kia EV2, with saving her life. She praised its airbags and “astonishing” design, saying the car was the “reason I’m not dead.”

“I am so grateful to be alive,” Driver said.

She ended the video by sharing a photograph of the badly smashed vehicle, along with another image that appeared to show her leaving a hospital following the crash.

In the caption, Driver thanked a van driver who stopped at the scene and helped her and Ben before emergency crews arrived.

However, she said another motorist slowed down, looked at the wreckage and then drove away without offering assistance.

“My brain keeps replaying the crash, which is very hard but seems to be a necessary part of processing,” she wrote. “Weeping too, feels good and helpful.”

Driver also thanked her friends, family and colleagues for supporting her during the frightening ordeal.

“Thank you to my friends, my family, all the people at work and especially my friend Ben and his family,” she wrote. “I love you.”

The accident came during a summer in which Driver had been spending a significant amount of time in France.

In a July Instagram post, the actress said she had been in the country “a LOT” that summer. On June 7, she announced that she had arrived in Paris and joked that she was enjoying her own “full-blown Emily in Paris moment.”

Driver received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress in 1998 for playing Skylar opposite Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting.

She later appeared in a recurring role during the fifth season of Netflix’s Emily in Paris in 2025. Earlier this year, she portrayed the biblical matriarch Sarah in the Fox miniseries The Faithful.