Dick Van Dyke needs for rain in eerie video months earlier than automotive crash on slick street

Simply 5 months earlier than skidding right into a gate in moist climate, Dick Van Dyke wished for it to rain.

The “Mary Poppins” star was heard in October lamenting in regards to the Los Angeles drought.

“Is it ever going to rain?” requested Van Dyke, 97, as he backed his Lexus out of a parking spot in a video obtained by The Submit.

The beloved performer’s sentiments have been an eerie foreshadowing of his unlucky driving mishap Wednesday when he skidded on a moist street and crashed his automotive right into a gate in Malibu.

Paramedics handled the veteran actor, who sustained a possible concussion and a bloody mouth and nostril, on the scene.

Whereas medication and alcohol should not believed to be concerned, the officers reportedly requested that Van Dyke retake his driving check with the California Division of Motor Autos.

When he was noticed paying a go to to his favourite nonprofit group and giving out cash to the homeless in October, he was pictured in the identical automotive that was concerned in Wednesday’s accident.

The Submit has reached out to Van Dyke’s representatives for remark.

His newest bump within the street, nevertheless, appears minor in comparison with a big automotive hearth Van Dyke was concerned in a decade in the past.

In 2013, the onscreen star was pulled from an inferno that engulfed his Jaguar whereas cruising down the freeway.

Whereas driving, the actor observed smoke billowing from his automotive and promptly pulled over.

A very good Samaritan pulled him from the automobile simply earlier than it burst into flames.

“It simply began making a noise, and I believed I had a flat at first, then it began to smoke, then it burned to a crisp,” he told TMZ on the time.

Regardless of his current accident, Van Dyke nonetheless appears in excessive spirits given his frail look.

In February, he appeared in Season 9 of “The Masked Singer” because the “Gnome,” which has been hailed because the “biggest reveal ever.”

His efficiency was only one of some public appearances the growing old star has made lately.

In June 2022, he was noticed leaving lunch together with his buddies, telling onlookers he was “simply glad to nonetheless be right here.”