Actor Rowan Atkinson has helped to save a driver's life following a horror crash in Tuscany, the Daily Mail reports.

‘Mr Bean’ was one of the first to come to a wealthy American businessman's aid after he smashed his 240mph 6.1-litre engine sports car into a tree in central Italy on Tuesday.

The driver lost control of the red-and-white vehicle, before careering off the road and crashing into the tree in a nearby olive grove. 

Atkinson, 59, who had been part of a convoy of motoring enthusiasts driving their McLaren F1s through the Tuscan countryside, immediately rushed to the businessman's aid.

He was also photographed picking up pieces of debris from the sports car, which was completely destroyed after flipping on to its roof.

Meanwhile, Italian police, firefighters and medics were called to the accident, which took place between the towns of Saline di Volterra and Pomarance.
The driver was airlifted to a hospital in Pisa, where today his condition was said to be not serious.

It comes three years after Atkinson crashed his own McLaren F1 into a tree after the vehicle struck a slippery patch of road near his home in Northamptonshire in 2011.