Report: Angelina's Driver Swipes Biker

Wed., Oct. 11, 2006 5:00 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Whoopsy-daisy.

NBC News reported Wednesday that a car carrying Angelina Jolie peeled away from a traffic signal, supposedly to avoid a pack of photographers, and hit a man on a motorbike.

Police confirmed to the network that 19-year-old Mittal Rawat was hit by the vehicle while Jolie was riding in the car, reading. The bruised teenager was the one who pointed out that the actress' driver was looking to escape some eager paparazzi.

Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Pune, India, about 125 miles southeast of Mumbai, filming A Mighty Heart, a biopic about slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Jolie plays Pearl's widow, Mariane, and Pitt is producing.

The comely couple donated $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation Tuesday, on what would have been the journalist's 43rd birthday.

Luckily, the young man who took a tumble due to Jolie's driver was doing well enough to speak to reporters afterward, just as the photog, who was shoved by a member of Brangelina's security detail Saturday, was able to inform the Hindustan Times that the grab-happy bodyguard threatened to kill him.

But apparently, even that incident wasn't enough to deter those anxious for yet another picture of Jolie in a foreign country. The Mr. and Mrs. Smith star was also forced to cut short an outing with son Maddox Sunday when the flashbulb-popping crowd swarmed the rickshaw mother and child were touring in, every time it came to a stop.

And Wednesday's incident serves to further prove that paparazzi plus celebs and moving vehicles can equal a highly combustible mix.

Just ask Lindsay Lohan, who has been involved in multiple fender-benders that were later blamed on overzealous photographers. Lohan's pair of accidents last year even sponsored a state law calling for steep fines for paparazzi who either assault or in any way harm their subjects in pursuit of a decent shot.

Similarly, Paris Hilton had a literal run-in with another car in a parking garage because, according to the Simple Life star, she was rushing to avoid the paparazzi on hand to capture her loading shopping bags into her Range Rover.

Then there's Britney Spears, who is being sued by a shutterbug who claims the pop star's mom, Lynne, drove over his foot with her SUV as she was pulling out of a parking space in 2004. Spears and her little sis, Jamie Lynn, were passengers.