Train Wrecks
Britney Had Cosmetic Damage Before Crash

Minutes before Britney Spears caused a three car crash on a Saturday night, she was driving the same way most women in L.A. do -- putting on her makeup behind the wheel!

TMZ spoke with the guy she hit, who says before the accident, he was admiring the white Mercedes and the woman putting on makeup while driving it. It wasn't until after she hit him at an estimated 10-15 MPH that he realized the woman was Britney. The man also says he wasn't sure if she was still putting on makeup at the time of the crash.

After the smash up, Britney's bodyguard apologized for the incident, but Britney never got around to doing the same. Brit and the 21-year-old crashee only exchanged a few words, but she did mention she was on the way to dinner with her mom.

As far as the field sobriety test is concerned, the crashee says officers performed the ol' "follow my finger test" on Brit. At first she was giggly, but she got real serious real quick. BTW -- she was the only person involved who was tested. CHP claims the test was S.O.P. telling us, "We do a standard check on most drivers .... especially during those hours."

While no injuries were reported on the scene, the man claims that he woke up with a sore back this morning and is looking into booking an appointment with a chiropractor.



Filed under: Train Wrecks, Britney Spears

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31. Leave Britney Alone

Posted at 7:27PM on Apr 13th 2008 by t

32. This will bring up the allegation towards the other driver that he step on his brake quickly to cause her to hit his car. I say this because why was he checking out the other driver behind him , did he know it was britney ??

Posted at 7:30PM on Apr 13th 2008 by News

33. Her father is obviously doing a poor job in allowing her to drive when she/he has the money to hire an expert sane driver. Why would he let her drive and kill herself and others? $$$
It's the cop's fault for postponing her driving hearing. This is insane, of all things not corrected, that Britney is still driving. Anyone that has to be hauled off in an ambulance all the time, shouldn't be driving.

Posted at 7:32PM on Apr 13th 2008 by wake-up

34. pork chop honey bum..the fat has gone to your head, causing a fat stupid close minded brain..if there is one! an orthopedic doc cannot help to re-align a neck or spine. a chiropractor can. sure, some chiropractors have caused more damage than good, but how many orthopedic docs have screwed up back & neck surgery causing permanent damage..paralysis, etc.?

a chiroproctor can administer physical thearpy, accupuncture, & adjustments that only help. i am talking from not only my positive experience, where i had 2 serious accidents back to back & after seeing a ortho for quite some time without any positive results, i finally went to a chiropractor & after a serious of treatment i got better & better to where i was pain & discomfort free. this was also true for 99.9% of many people that i know who have turned to chiroproctors with only positive results.

you do not have to be an M.D. to know what you are doing. Chiropractors go to school for extensive training, they graduate,
& yes, are legally called Doctors.

so stuff you CHOPS with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 7:35PM on Apr 13th 2008 by babyluv

35. Hey Brit, print the pictures off of TMZ and give them to your Attorney. It looks like you have NO MAKE-UP on to me.

Posted at 7:37PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Kelli

36. The injured driver should sue her father for letting her drive. If she can drive, she shouldn't need a conserverhip. Either she's competent, or incompetent. Daddy, rent a race track or parking lot if you want your incompetent duaghter to drive.
IT'S OBVIOUS THE INJURED DRIVER HAD TO BREAK, SINCE THE WRECK CAUSED HIM TO CRASH IN THE CAR IN FRONT OF HIM. The reason Britney is a spoiled brat, is from fans who idolize trash like her

Posted at 7:37PM on Apr 13th 2008 by wake-up

37. Posted at 6:49PM on Apr 13th 2008 by melody90405 ... "He probably slammed on his brakes to avoid the car in front of him and that's why there were 3 cars involved. Anyone think of that?"

Posted at 7:18PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Ace ..."It sounds to me like the 21 year old was too busy looking in his rear view mirror and caused a chain reaction accident."

Posted at 7:22PM on Apr 13th 2008 by just me ... "Maybe if the guy she hit would have been focused on the traffic ahead instead of being focused on his rear-view mirror and admiring the white Mercedes behind him and the woman driving it he would not have had to slam on the brakes and cause Britney to bump him."


NEWS FLASH!!!! BRITNEY IS STILL THE ONE LEGALLY AT FAULT! Read your driver's manual, people. Even if the guy in front of her slammed on his brakes, if he did not hit the car in front of him, then he had his vehicle under control. The "hitter" not the "hittee" is the one at fault, and while I feel for Britney, she is the one who caused the accident. She was supposed to maintain enough distance that she could bring her car to a sudden stop if the guy in front of her slammed on his brakes.


Posted at 7:38PM on Apr 13th 2008 by You Can Bet It Ain't State Farm!

38. WRONG AGAIN BONEBRAIN.

CHIROPRACTORS ARE NOT LEGALLY DOCTORS.

ARE YOU SURE THE ONLY THING YOU HURT IN THOSE ACCIDENTS WAS YOUR BACK ?

SPEND LESS TIME ON TMZ, AND MORE TIME DOING SOME RESEARCH NITWIT.

Posted at 7:41PM on Apr 13th 2008 by pork chop honey bun

39. What makes me laugh is Britney has been doing very well in her life and the paps were going crazy dropping to their knees praying that Britney would make a mistake and that they would be there. Britney, they were never your friends, just a bunch of freaks acting like leeches waiting for blood or in your case opportunity for a money shot. Dad, take the keys and hire a driver.

Posted at 7:42PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Lenn K.

40. Babyluv,
Why so nasty?
May I direct you to quackwatch homepage?

Posted at 7:45PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Andy

41. .


Can you say "Swoop and Squat," boyz and girls?

He finally recognized her / her car, and amazingly he had to "suddenly stop" for traffic.

Right...



Posted at 7:48PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Kate

42. PORK BRAIN;;

legally able to be called a doctor of Chiropractic medicine, or ever Chiropractor in America wuld be sued! not an M.D., but a Chiropractic Doc. They all have the title of DOCTOR After graduating from school.

Posted at 7:49PM on Apr 13th 2008 by babyluv

43. babyluv:

Just how many accidents have you been in?

I've been driving for many years and have never been rear-ended.

Posted at 7:51PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Andy

44. Britney deserves a 2008 Mercedes like Elvis "deserved" his black belt. I wouldn't trust her in a Yugo.... .

Posted at 7:52PM on Apr 13th 2008 by Racer X

45. babyluv, you must be a chiropractor or be married to one. You are so enamored of practitioners in this field. Chiropractors have caused permanent damage. Consider the following case reported in the Massachusetts Law Weekly:

"In June 1993, the plaintiff was in a minor motor-vehicle accident. Though she did not tell the defendant, the plaintiff's headaches had increased in severity from the date of the June 1993 accident until she next saw the defendant in August.

On Aug. 23, 1993, the defendant chiropractor examined the plaintiff and performed an adjustment on the plaintiff's neck without complication. The plaintiff returned for a repeat neck adjustment on Aug. 27, 1993. The plaintiff lay down on the examining table with the defendant at the plaintiff's head. He lifted the plaintiff's head forward and applied a thrust motion twisting the plaintiff's neck, an acceptable procedure in chiropractic medicine for treatment of headaches. The plaintiff became stuporous, vomited and quickly went unconscious. She sustained a stroke.

The plaintiff was rushed to the emergency room of Newton/ Wellesley Hospital where diagnostic films demonstrated that she had sustained a dissection in the intimal wall of the left vertebral artery just as it sharply turns at C-1. The dissection likely caused a clot to form at this juncture. Tails of the clot then likely broke off from the vertebral artery, traveled to the basilar artery and then bilaterally to numerous distant and narrower arterial branches. The clot fragments eventually became lodged in distal brain arteries causing decreasing blood flow and death to brain cells in diffuse brain areas including the thalamus and frontal lobes. The inevitable consequences were that the plaintiff sustained permanent damage in brain areas responsible for memory, cognition and emotions."

The case, needless to say, settled for several hundred thousand dollars.

Posted at 7:55PM on Apr 13th 2008 by I'm With Pork Chop Honey Bun On This One

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