Justin Bieber In Car Crash ,After Paparazzi Chase

According to TMZ, Justin Bieber was in a car accident in Bev Hills Tuesday at about 2 PM ... after a car driven by a paparazzo was chasing the Escalade in which Bieber was a passenger -- eyewitnesses tell TMZ.

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We're told the Escalade was going down Canon Drive at a fast clip, trying to lose the photog, when a BMW was pulling out of a parking structure near Bouchon restaurant.  An eyewitness tells us ... the BMW misjudged the speed of the Escalade and smashed into it.

We're told Bieber almost immediately got out of the SUV and into another car and sped off.


Law enforcement tells no one was injured and it was just a crash.