Jackson, Miss. ? Morgan Freeman is doing well after surgery to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand following a car wreck Sunday night, his publicist said.

The surgery Monday night “lasted approximately four and a half hours including recovery and he is in good spirits and was visiting with family members this morning,” Donna Lee, Freeman’s publicist, said in a statement Tuesday.

“He was walking this (morning), and is looking forward to his release as soon as possible,” Lee said.

Freeman, 71, and Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis following the accident on a dark stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway in Tallahatchie County.

State troopers said the car careened off the highway and flipped end-over-end before landing upright in a ditch. Rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free “The Dark Knight” star and Meyer from the wreckage of the car.

Freeman was airlifted about 90 miles to the Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder damage, Lee said.

Bill Rogers, a retired police officer, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he witnessed the accident near the small town of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.

Rogers said Freeman complained of pain from injuries before being loaded onto a medical helicopter, but “was more concerned about the people around him than himself.”

“Mr. Freeman thought he may have gone to sleep but he wasn’t sure,” Rogers said. “He didn’t know what happened.”

The Mississippi Highway Patrol is still investigating the accident, Sgt. Ben Williams said Tuesday. Alcohol and drugs don’t appear to be a factor and no citations are likely to be filed, he said.

Rogers said Freeman and Meyer were briefly unconscious when he got to the vehicle. Freeman was driving Meyer’s 1997 Nissan Maxima, authorities said.