Amanda Bynes in 4th car accident since May 5

Aug 21, 2012

It wasn't a hit-and-run -- this time

It would almost be comical, if not for the fact that it's so serious: Nickelodeon alumnus Amanda Bynes was reportedly involved in her second car accident in as many weeks Monday night -- the latest in a series of fender-benders that started with her DUI arrest in early April.

What I Like About You star Amanda Bynes needs to learn to like being chauffeured by a driver, because TMZ is reporting that the 26-year-old was rear-ended by another car in the San Fernando Valley area of California on Monday evening.

So, the sometimes-actress may not have slammed into someone else (for a change), but the driver of the other car contends Amanda "made a reckless maneuver" that "triggered the collision."

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The car that had the misfortune of being driven by Amanda was a rental. This is important because her BMW is, reportedly, in the body shop. Why?

Little more than two weeks ago to the day, fender-bender Bynes was accused of hitting a Los Angeles woman's car -- and then getting the heck out of dodge.

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“She didn't recognize the woman at first -- because she ‘looked like a hot mess,’” the gossip site said of the victim of the alleged hit-and-run in early August. “But once they began talking, she realized it was Amanda Bynes.”

You'd think one hit-and-run would be enough, but this was Amanda's third in three months -- with two others on May 5 and May 27.

Amanda Bynes has appeared to be in competition with fellow "bad starlets club" member Lindsay Lohan ever since early April, when she was arrested on a misdemeanor DUI charge after sideswiping a cop's car at 3 a.m.