nationalphotogroup.comCaution: Paparazzi in mirror are closer than they appear.
A security car trailing a vehicle that was carrying Michael Jackson's three children was rear-ended by a photographer this afternoon in Los Angeles, TMZ reports.
Prince Michael, Paris and Blanket are said to be fine, though we feel they're a little young to be experiencing the Hollywood starlet treatment.
Lindsay Lohan, for instance, was famously involved in several smashups caused by overeager paparazzi who just couldn't seem to stay off the girl's fender.
Luckily, the Jackson brood had a whole other vehicle between them and the offending photog, who took off before police arrived at the crash site, which was just a few miles away from the Jacksons' compound in Encino. A hit-and-run report was filed close to 2:30 p.m.
Earlier this month, a judge determined that the kids were doing "wonderfully" under the care of their grandmother Katherine.
She knew enough to arrange for that extra layer of vehicular paparazzi protection, didn't she?
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Can't the paps just leave 'em alone? It would be a shame if the wee Jacksons end up in this gallery of celebs giving photogs the one-fingered salute.