World Cup winner Maradona, 50, was driving near his home near his home suburb of Ezeiza when the accident happened, a source said at Ezeiza hospital.[break]
Local television said Maradona, who coached Argentina at last summer´s World Cup finals and who earlier this year agreed to coach United Arab Emirates side al Wasl, was travelling with his partner, Veronica Ojeda, who was said to have suffered a bruised rib.
"It is nothing serious," said Maradona´s doctor Alfredo Cahe, his prognosis swiftly confirmed by hospital director Oscar Sico.
"Maradona is fine, he suffered virtually no whiplash. They (he and Ojeda) were taken hospital as a precaution but have no problems. They can both go home."
Last week, Maradona was in hospital again but on that occasion as a visitor as he went to see his frail mother Dalma Franco, who is on a ventilator in a Buenos Aires sanitorium after suffering in recent days from a virus.
She also has a history of heart problems, which necessitated a spell in hospital late last year.
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