Mookie Blaylock hospitalized, charged with vehicular homicide after car accident

Former NBA All-Star Mookie Blaylock is being held without bond at an Atlanta jail on charges of vehicular homicide after surrendering to police on Monday, the USA Today reports. Blaylock was released from the hospital recently after being injured in a car crash south of Atlanta.

Authorities also charged Blaylock with driving on a suspended license, making an improper lane change and crossing the median in the head-on crash for the May 31 incident in Jonesboro that a killed 43-year-old woman. Blaylock’s attorney says he blacked out prior to the crash.

Former NBA All-Star guard Mookie Blaylock was taken off life support Friday night and upgraded from critical to serious condition on Saturday following a car crash, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The 46-year-old Blaylock was initially put on life support after a devastating car crash on Friday afternoon in suburban Atlanta. Blaylock was driving northbound on Tara Boulevard in Clayton County when his Cadillac Escalade swerved over the median into oncoming traffic.

The 46-year old Blaylock was driving northbound on Tara Boulevard when he reportedly crossed into the southbound lane and collided straight on with another vehicle. Three people were injured in the accident. Blaylock is currently unresponsive at Atlanta Medical Center, while a female passenger in the second vehicle suffered internal bleeding.

Blaylock played in the NBA from 1989-2002, spending seven years in the middle of his career as a member of the Hawks. Blaylock was an All-Star in Atlanta in 1994 and was renowned as an ace defender, being named to the NBA All-Defensive first team twice and second team four times. Blaylock led the NBA in steals per game in 1997 and 1998.