Freeman, 85, who portrayed God in the movies Evan Almighty (2007) and Bruce Almighty (2003), suffers irreversible physical injury due to a single-vehicle collision close to his Mississippi home.
He appeared as Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight, the second part of the Batman series.
Emergency personnel reportedly used the jaws of life to free him and the passenger from the crushed-up Nissan Maxima that had rolled over numerous times.
Freeman was airlifted to the hospital and underwent a four-hour operation to fix a broken left shoulder, arm, and elbow. Although the procedure was supposed to allow for a full recovery, the adored actor suffered long-term damage, as he disclosed in a 2010 interview with People.