Osbourne recovering after crash

British rocker Ozzy Osbourne will be on a ventilator for at least one more day after fracturing eight ribs and a vertebra in an all-terrain vehicle crash, doctors said Tuesday.

“His progress is steady,” said Dick Jack, medical director at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London, where the former Black Sabbath lead singer and reality TV star is being treated. “He is stable, he is comfortable and satisfactory, but it’s going to be slow and I don’t expect any major changes, certainly for 24 hours.”

Osbourne, who has mellowed from wild man of heavy rock to comical, much-loved star of his TV series “The Osbournes,” underwent emergency surgery overnight after the crash on an all-terrain bike at his English country estate.

His wife, Sharon, made a 5,000-mile dash across the Atlantic Tuesday to be at his hospital bedside.