Keanu Reeves' Not So Excellent Adventure
One unlucky paparazzo apparently got more of a close-up than he was bargaining for while trying to take pictures of Keanu Reeves Monday night.
The actor allegedly sideswiped a photographer standing in the path of his car as he maneuvered his Porsche out of a parking space around 7:30 p.m., police said. The accident occurred in Rancho Palos Verdes, about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
Authorities indicated that the photographer was perhaps not practicing the wisest traffic-safety tactics at the time of the accident.
"The paparazzo was standing in the street in front of Mr. Reeves' 1996 Porsche when he was grazed by the car," the Sheriff's Department said in a statement Tuesday.
"The man fell to the ground. Paramedics were summoned and treated the man at the scene. He was then transported via ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment."
The extent of the unnamed shutterbug's injuries was unknown.
Reeves, 42, was unharmed in the incident. It was not known how fast he was driving at the time of impact.
No charges were filed, though police were continuing to investigate.
Reeves isn't the first celebrity to have a vehicular encounter with the paparazzi in recent weeks.
Last month, James Blunt allegedly ran over a photographer's foot as he left a pre-Oscar party in Hollywood, an incident the singer's rep attributed to overzealous photographers "invading his space."
Another ill-fated paparazzo wound up nursing a bruised knee in a New York hospital last week after a late-night run-in with Lindsay Lohan's car outside the Hotel Gansevoort. The starlet blamed the collision on the photographer's decision to leap onto her hood in the quest for a better camera angle, while the photog chalked the incident up to erratic driving on Lohan's part.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Reeves had yet to weigh in with his version of the events leading up to his own accident.
On the professional front, Reeves will next be starring in The Night Watchman, as a corrupt cop who realizes he can no longer play by his own dirty rules. Production on the film is slated to begin in late April.
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