Lazio confirm Ciro Immobile suffered 'sprain trauma of the spine' in car crash with tram

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CIRO IMMOBILE HAS has been hospitalised with back and rib injuries after an accident that reportedly saw the Lazio captain’s car hit by a tram in Rome.

A statement from the club confirmed that the 33-year-old was being assessed at the city’s Gemelli University Hospital following the crash.

Photographs carried by local media show police at the scene of a collision between a tram and a badly damaged Land Rover SUV, said to belong to Immobile.

A statement published on Lazio’s official website read: “The medical staff of Lazio announces that, today, following a road accident, the footballer Ciro Immobile reported a sprain trauma of the spine and the compound fracture of the XI right rib.