Marc Summers Injures Face In Taxi Accident

10:01 PM, Aug 18, 2012  | By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY http://www.floridatoday.com/usatoday/article/826644odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNATION%7Cp 

Ryan Seacrest tweeted yesterday: "Just heard from my friend Marc Summers he was in a serious accident- cab he was in hydroplaned. Docs say he'll be ok. Wish him well @ibatvmc"

It didn't sound good for the host we remember from Nickelodeon's Double Dare show in the late '80s, early '90s.

Turns out Summers, 60, suffered multiple broken bones in his face and required emergency surgery after a bad car accident in Philadelphia last week, reports TMZ.

Summers, who hosts Unwrapped on the Food Network and whose production company is based in Philadelphia, told TMZ he can't remember much about the accident because he was in the back of a taxi when it hydroplaned and lost control.

Summers says he was was thrown into the clear partition inside the taxi cab face first. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors performed emergency plastic surgery.

He tells People.com: "Everything on the left side [of my face] from my eye socket down was just wiped out. My eye socket got all swollen. I'm having trouble seeing completely out of the left eye ... There's lots of titanium and screws in my face. I was pretty lucky that I didn't have brain damage," Summers adds.

TMZ reports he's home and resting in Philadelphia. "I'm all good ... just in a lot of pain."

On Twitter on Thursday, Summers thanked fans and "Mr. Seacrest" for the "kind words" and said, "Will Keep You posted as recovery continues. Much love and respect. Marc."

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Marc Summers, “I Broke My Face in Nasty Car Accident”

Marc Summers,  “I Broke My Face in Nasty Car Accident”

8/16/2012 11:55 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/16/marc-summers-car-accident-broken-face-double-dare-food-network-host/

Marc Summers -- the legendary host of "Double Dare" -- tells TMZ he suffered multiple broken bones in his face and required emergency surgery after a bad car accident in Philadelphia last week.

Summers -- who also hosts "Unwrapped" on the Food Network -- says he can't remember much about the accident ... only that he was a passenger in the back seat of a taxi cab ... when the car hydroplaned and lost control.

60-year-old Summers says ... he was told he flew out of his seat and into the clear partition inside the taxi cab face first ... breaking several bones in the process.

Marc was rushed to a nearby hospital ... and says doctors performed emergency plastic surgery to put his face back together.

The TV icon tells us he's out of the hospital and resting at his home in Philly.

"I'm all good ... just in a lot of pain."

Summers says ever since the accident his famous Food Network chef friends like Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Michael Symon have come through STRONG ... offering to make him special "get well" meals.

Problem is Marc is still having some trouble operating his mouth ... and can't chew very well. So he's been limited to easily consumed soft food items like pastas and purees.

Side note - Summers says he has not looked at himself in the mirror yet ... but he's been told that the damage isn't too bad.

Get well soon.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/16/marc-summers-car-accident-broken-face-double-dare-food-network-host/#ixzz242A4MYDd 

Food Network's Marc Summers: Car Accident 'Wiped Out' Half My Face

Food Network's Marc Summers:

Car Accident 'Wiped Out' Half My Face

Food Network star/producer Marc Summers is grateful to be alive after sustaining serious facial injuries during a car accident last week.

The 60-year-old star, who currently hosts The Food Network's "Unwrapped," was a passenger in a taxicab in Philadelphia when the vehicle hydroplaned during a "torrential downpour," Summers told People.

"I knew when [the driver] lost control that I was in trouble. I was on the phone with my supervising producer and I said, 'Oh my God, we're going to crash!'" he told the magazine, recalling the harrowing moments right before the wreck. "Next thing I knew, I woke up and had blood all over me."

Summers' head slammed against the plastic partition between the cab's front and backseats upon impact, badly damaging his face.

"Everything on the left side from my eye socket down was just wiped out," he told the magazine. "My eye socket got all swollen. I'm having trouble seeing completely out of the left eye... There's lots of titanium and screws in my face."

Adding, "I was pretty lucky that I didn't have brain damage."

Summers, a longtime TV producer and former host of Nickelodeon's "Double Dare," underwent a four-hour operation at the hand of a plastic surgeon following the accident.

While the star is still in tremendous pain, he said his doctor is confident the lengthy operation was successful.

"Everything went back into place," he told the magazine. "In a few weeks, the swelling will go down and no one will ever know ... I'll be a new guy."

Though he faces an arduous recuperation and is still having difficulty chewing solid foods, Summers is already on a mission to prevent this type of accident from happening to anyone else.

"Appreciate all the good wishes from everyone. Pain a little less each day. Will you help me in a campaign to rid cabs of plastic partitions?" he Tweeted on Saturday, later adding that the blockades "serve no purpose other than hurting people" and are "way [too] close to backseat despite seat belts."

-- Erin O'Sullivan

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OMG I was laying in bed just now flipping through the channels looking for something to watch and Teen Nick said, “Legends of the Hidden Temple”. I was like, “what?” so I keep looking and sure enough I’m taping “Legends of the Hidden Temple” right now and after that DOUBLE DARE is coming on!!!!!

I can’t believe this, we’ve (our city) has had Teen Nick since January and I’m always doing a search for Double Dare and Water Babies and Tuck Everlasting and Under the Mountain and various other Nick Classic and every once in a while something will come up but not Double Dare or Legends, this is the first time!!!

Check you’re local time zones for when they come on and TAPE AWAY! THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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