Ozzy Osbourne is making progress after his quad bike accident and can now breathe on his own, hospital officials said this week.

The former Black Sabbath lead singer was able to talk to his wife, Sharon, at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London, where he was taken after the Dec. 8 accident, the hospital said in a statement.

Osbourne, 55, has been in intensive care since the accident at his estate in Buckinghamshire, southern England.

He fractured his left collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra and had emergency surgery shortly after admission to restore the flow to a damaged blood vessel.

The Daily Mirror tabloid last week quoted Sharon Osbourne as saying her husband stopped breathing and his heart stopped for a minute after the accident. A security guard had resuscitated him, she said.