Osbourne Breathes on His Own After Crash

Musician Ozzy Osbourne is making good progress after his quad bike accident and is now able to breathe on his own, hospital officials said Monday.

The former Black Sabbath frontman was able to talk to his wife Sharon at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London, where he was taken after the accident last Monday, the hospital said in a statement.

Osbourne, 55, has been in intensive care since the accident at his estate in Buckinghamshire, southern England. He fractured his left collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra and had emergency surgery shortly after admission to restore the flow to a damaged blood vessel.

The Daily Mirror tabloid last week quoted Sharon Osbourne as saying her husband stopped breathing and his heart stopped for a minute after the accident. A security guard had resuscitated him, she said.