Brit’s Fender Bender
Britney Spears was involved in a minor fender bender on Sunset Blvd. at approximately 2:11 PM PST. Britney, who was driving her white Mercedes SL, rear ended a woman driving a red Ford Explorer. No one was injured but Britney’s Mercedes did sustain some damage to it. Britney’s bodyguard, who was riding in the passenger seat, traded information with a woman who was driving the Explorer. We’ll have more details soon.
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May 13th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
So happy she’s ok. Poor car though. I wonder what’s on Brit’s mind lately?
Usually she doesn’t hit cars …. ok, maybe she runs over paps feet and every now and then might hit a parked car. But just driving down the road … that doesn’t usually happen!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
She stepped on the accelerator while the light is still red. It is unknown if she gained a lot of weight or became pregnant recently, but what she has done to herself this month has seriously disappointed me…
May 13th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Sounds to me like she was texting on her phone to her special friend or maybe her sister and not paying attention and neither was the body guard. Pay attention Brit. We dont want you hurt.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
It makes you wonder if she really should be driving right now. All it takes for me is a single Robaxecet and I’m too woozy to drive, so I don’t know if Britney being behind the wheel of such a powerful car is a wise move these days.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Oh people please! From all accounts she was NOT texting while she bumped into the car! She was seen playing with her phone 10 minutes prior to the incident, not during. From video and eyewitness accounts she misjudged the lane as she thought her lane had a green light, when it was actually the lane next to her that did, and going a whopping rolling speed of 2 mph, bumped into the bumper of the car in front of her. Big freaking deal! It happens everyday on every major road in America. With drivers 16-25, traffic infractions occur approximately every 3 weeks.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Ari, I agree, this one’s not a biggy whatsoever. I don’t mean to make it sound like she’s a complete menace behind the wheel! I just hope it never gets any worse than a fender bender - this girl’s had enough happen to her over the past year. She doesn’t need anything more right now.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Steel_Magnolia, I understand. Britney isn’t the greatest driver, but then again, a lot of drivers are crappy. I don’t see how this is somehow a big deal as it doesn’t even qualify as an accident; most metro police do not qualify fender benders as accidents unless serious damage, bodily harm, or hit and run is reported.
It isn’t like she was going 30-65 to shoot, 70 mph crashing into vehicles. She misjudged something and bumped into the rear bumper. She hasn’t been shown in video or reports to be texting or calling, she wasn’t driving erratically, she wasn’t speeding. It was an accident!
And, oh no, she had a fender bender 5? weeks ago! Sure, it isn’t great, but it isn’t as bad as some are trying to make it. I’ve seen someone get into 2 accidents and get issued 6 tickets in the span of a month; that’s common with young male drivers actually, but still. If this wasn’t Britney Spears no one would be saying anything about a couple fender benders*.
*The “running over the feet” incidents clearly, if one is a thinking individual, not her fault. Rule number one of being a pedestrian: Never put yourself in the way of a moving vehicle. Never put yourself in a driver’s blind spot. If any of us had 20 people crouching in front of our moving vehicles, we’d have ran their feet over as well. Shoot, even Britney’s drivers have ran over people’s feet so you can’t just blame her.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Umm, I was kidding about the “running over feet” incidents.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Personally, I agree about it being the paps fault for getting his feet ran over.
I think she’s done an amazing job driving .. considering all of the distractions she has had.
40 /- paps surrounding her car every time she comes to a stop … couldn’t be an easy thing to navigate through.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
KLM, I know you were kidding about that, but some people aren’t. They think she is some horrendous driver because she ran over a few feet of people in the way of a moving vehicle, standing or crouching in blind spots. Add in the hitting of a parked car and the two fender benders and some are saying take her license.
I’m sorry if the state does not take away the license of someone who has 10 moving violation tickets, 2 crashes, and a DUI…then they shouldn’t revoke her license. She certainly isn’t the best driver, but she definitely isn’t the worst. Hell, she could have gotten a DUI or two, crashed her car into a tree, van, person, but she hasn’t. The worst she did was ding a parked car and leave without notification, which is bad, but not like it doesn’t happen on a daily basis.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I agree, I wouldn’t include running over a pap’s foot as an “accident.” In my opinion, they actually got what they deserved for getting so darn close!
I wasn’t thinking, “Take her license away.” I was just thinking, “Maybe let the bodyguard drive for a while.”
I say this having a sister who was on anti-anxiety medication and had to pull over on the side of the highway a number of times because she was so out of it. She had to switch medication 6 different times before finding the right fit. In the meantime, her driving skills weren’t the greatest…
May 14th, 2008 at 12:29 am
LOL.
She seems like a terrible driver. Glad she’s okay though.
If I lived in LA, I would get into about five fender benders a week. Thankfully, I live elsewhere.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Steel_Magnolia, I understand where you are going and I can see your point to an extent. However, there is no evidence to support (other than potential side effects that may or may not occur in a specific person)that her medication is the root of her big whopping 2 incidents. She was and is admittedly not the greatest driver. The girl hit a portapotty on her driveway for goodness sake.
I’d moreso blame her recent car incidents on the influx of photographers in the last 3 or so years as they are all up on her car, flashes going off while she is driving, slowing down, stopped. That is a huge distraction! I say that because prior to the last couple of years, when they have gotten really, really horrible, she has never so much as had any issues. The only “new” factor in the equation is/was the photogs.
As to her having a driver, it certainly wouldn’t hurt, but it doesn’t change the situation much. Her bodyguards have come close to running over a few feet and stopping short a few times themselves.
Small hands, no kidding! If I were in her situation I would likely be in an accident (or intentional vehicular manslaughter…depending on the person :)) at least once a week.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:35 am
And when the two involved cars tray to take them to the Summit:
1. Britney have to drive around a pap who going/standing/running where her car have to drive.
2. The red Ford Explorer have to jam on the brakes when a pap run infront of the car just infront of the Summit.
If the different site report on everything Britney does, I will also as a voyeur, talk free about the behavior of the papz.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am
A portapotty in her driveway?!
The mental picture of that is just too much! LOL
May 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
“Steel_Magnolia Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am A portapotty in her driveway?!
The mental picture of that is just too much! LOL”
What do you mean by that???
May 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Her parents may want to book driving lessons for her (I don’t think she had proper teaching or a teacher at all for the matter). Although, these benders are small and don’t cause a lot of damage, she shouldn’t be in this situation a first time let alone a second time.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Amapola Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
“What do you mean by that???”
Amapola, I just mean that the picture in my head made me laugh. I was imagining Britney Spears, of all people, knocking over a portapotty with her car and the mess it might have made. I don’t know if she knocked it over or just bumped it, but it made me laugh either way. It would’ve been an odd situation! LOL
May 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
are and Steel_Magnolia
I find it very strange..As you perhaps know, I have to look in dictionary for some words you say..
“Portapotty=
A Disgusting Shitter That Is Used By Homeless People, FisherMen, Mexicans And Construction Workers”
Urban Dictionary
So when ari first write it, I thought it just was som flowerpot, but then, because it was “funny” I look for the word.
What shall I belive?? They have such things on the Summit driveway?
May 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Amapola,
Portapotties don’t have to be disgusting - I used one at a wedding last summer that was white, with carpeting, mirrors, and a vase of flowers inside. It was very elegant!
Portapotties can also be disgusting if they aren’t cleaned. Sometimes you’ll find them at outdoor music festivals, and those ones are pretty bad! LOL
However, Brit may have had one in her driveway if she had, for example, landscapers or construction workers doing work around her house. It may not have been disgusting…but I was imagining Brit in her Mercedes, knocking over some big blue plastic portapotty and it rolling around on her driveway.
Okay, I’ve got an overactive imagination. I admit it! (Sorry!!)
May 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Weel what can I say, I dont get calmer..
What do you say AM..You dont find any similarities? You talk the language AM, you should hear the sound better than me. See the pattern better.
I´m confused, I really am.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Well to clarify, she did not knock the portapotty over, she just backed into it slowly as it was sitting in her driveway (I think she was having renovations done on her house, which would explain the portapotty).
Radar, your kidding me, right with the “she shouldn’t be in this situation the first time, let alone the second”?! You do realize that 98% of the driving population gets into fender benders! Why should Britney be any different? Because she is freaking “Britney Spears”? Give me a break! She is a 26 year old, slightly experienced driver who happens to have a crap load of money from performing like a slave for everyone for the last 10 years! A DUI, a vehicular crash (which a fender bender does not qualify unless medical attention and gross property damage is noted), speeding excessively, hit and runs…those are all situations one should not find themselves in ever, let alone two or more times.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Hey Ari, She must have been hounded by Paparazzi’s in her driveway as she hits the potty.
(WINK)…
May 14th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
well now that you mention it (LOL)…She did have 3 technical vans from MTV somewhere within the vicinity hence how it was caught on tape. Then again, I don’t recall that she looked very hard behind her or that both her hands were on the wheel.
She is not the greatest driver to start with, that is a given. Add in the chaos of having, what, 10-15 men and women (equality people, although I must say I have seen fewer and fewer females on Britney’s tail lately) following/chasing/helping to create even more LA craziness and an increase in potential/actual accidents is/was bound to occur. I for one know I am blind for a few seconds after flashes go off in my face so I can’t imagine multiple flashes. There should be a law against the flashes whilst someone is operating a vehicle, but whatever. Not that the photographers are completely to blame, but they certainly (well the ones that get all up on her car and do the multiple flashes all the time) are a factor in it all.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Exkaayoooze me, if’n ya don’t mind. I once drove my veeehikkle after taking 8 valium, 80mls Prozac, 30mls Abilify and a dollop o’ Resperdahl and only hit on the curbs twice. We got there ok. All good. Not a ding on the cah mate. Li’l sis wouldn’t let me drive back, what a party pooper. No intestinal fortitude whatsoever wally! She’s always bin pale o’ skin but, poke me with a barge pole and call me a lizard, it was the diving outta the veeeehikkle as soon as we got there and her upchucking that fair turned me stomach.