Actor James Woods Says ‘Old Tank’ Grand Cherokee Saved His Life

By Detroit Steel - December 17, 2015

I’m betting that you won’t get many complaints about Grand Cherokees from actor James Woods.

The 68-year-old Hollywood mainstay credits a Jeep Grand Cherokee with saving his life after a multiple-car pileup on a slippery Colorado highway.

According to a NY Daily News report, Woods was trying to avoid the accident when he slid his Grand Cherokee into a guardrail, which saved him from plunging 100 feet into the Colorado River below Interstate 70.

“Rockies, guy doing 75+ in an ice storm spun out. I hit right wall to avoid him, spun 180, hit left wall sliding backwards going 60 mph,” tweeted Woods. “I was in my 4WD Jeep Grand Cherokee. That Jeep saved my life. An old tank.”

A minute later he tweeted, “I slid below it. No deaths. Banged up. Car wrecked. Good to be alive. Glad everybody survived.”

That’s good news all the way around, but Woods did tweet that he received a “little concussion” from the incident.