Pitt Convoy Knocks Down Student (breaking)
We don’t know a great deal about this story at this point, but it appears that the Pitt/Jolie convoy, anxiously trying to get away from papparrazi have knocked a student from his motorbike. Thankfully the student was unhurt, but the bike was damaged. The vehicles did not stop after the incident, and witnesses are upset.
Mittal told Pune Newsline that he was riding towards Vaikunth Mehta Chowk from Symbiosis’ direction at around 5 pm when the incident took place. ‘‘Two vehicles — Toyota Innovas — were also proceeding in the same direction and tried to overtake me. One of the vehicles brushed against my motorcycle and I fell down. Both the vehicles sped away without stopping,’’ he said.
Mittal said the accident took place while the driver was trying to dodge other vehicles that were trying to overtake him.
Eyewitness Nikhil George, a student who was also riding on his motorcycle, said the two vehicles had jumped the signal at the Senapati Bapat chowk. ‘‘Soon after jumping the signal, one of the four-wheelers hit the motorcycle. The rider and a girl riding pillion fell down, but had a narrow escape,’’ he said.
George said they followed the cars till Sindh Society. ‘‘The cars entered inside the Sindh Society, but when we tried to follow them, the securitymen at the society prevented us from entering,’’ he said.
The accident was involving the security guards’ car, not that which held any of the family, so it could be that Pitt and Jolie did not even realize there was an incident. And, I would say that it is quite probably that since the students gave chase, jumping lights along with papparrazi, that the convoy may have even thought the students were part of the journalists (I use this word lightly). And, it appears that the accident was not serious, because you know if it was they would be using much more passionate wording than, “Jolie’s covoy KNOCKS DOWN student”.
But then, I admit bias. I like them so I hope they would have stopped had they known about the accident.
This mindless papparrazi ordeal has got to stop. Someone is going to be hurt if they don’t tone it down.
Thanks for the tip Kaye. Hat tip to GossipRocks.
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IndianPad
Oct 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
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Robyn
Oct 12, 2006 at 10:21 pm
The BlackLooks story is there too. Thanks!
I didn’t even know IndianPad.com exisited (guess I’ve been America-centric). I also write for SocialRiots.com (a social networking site). I’ll definitely write something up for the site. It’s great!
AccurateReport
Oct 13, 2006 at 8:46 am
India police tighten Jolie’s security after accident
Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:45am ET
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have stepped up security for Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie after a car in her convoy was involved in an accident in which a motorcyclist was slightly hurt, police said on Friday.
The car was carrying members of the film crew shooting “A Mighty Heart”, which stars Jolie, when it collided with the motorcycle in the western city of Pune on Wednesday, police said.
Nineteen-year-old Mittal Rawat who was on the bike suffered minor injuries, police said. They quoted him as saying that the car sped away after hitting his vehicle.
“We have increased the security for Ms. Jolie to see that incidents like this do not happen again.,” R.S. Khaire, a police officer in Pune, told Reuters by telephone. “We are not taking this incident lightly.”
Another police officer said a case had been registered against the driver of the car, and added that more police would now accompany Jolie on location.
Arti Surendranath of Kailash Picture Company, which is managing the film’s shooting schedule in India, said Jolie was not in the car which met with the accident.
“It’s a small incident which has been blown out of proportion,” she said.
“A Mighty Heart” is based on the life of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in the Pakistani port city of Karachi and killed in 2002 while researching a report in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Oscar-winning Jolie who is playing the role of Pearl’s wife, Mariane, arrived in India last week with partner Pitt who is producing the film.
The movie is being shot in Pune because of security concerns in Pakistan.
The quiet city has been in a frenzy since the arrival of the celebrity couple. Hundreds of people are thronging the hotel where they are staying as well as the heavily guarded shooting location.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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