The star socialite Paris Hilton got saved by a whisker on Saturday when a photographer’s car sideswiped her Cadillac Escalade as she made a move out her vehicle. The Simple Life star’s chauffeur had parked the car behind the Beverley Hills boutique Kitson when an excited paparazzo pulled up to take some pictures and accidentally left his Mercedes Benz in reverse.

Fortunately no one was hurt in the incident but the neck of the minder sitting in front passenger seat of the socialite’s car started aching. Hilton and the photographer exchanged phone numbers for insurance purposes.

“The car is backing up into me, in reverse, as my client is getting out of the car. Basically it was either me risking hurting my client (by moving the vehicle), which I wasn’t willing to do, of course, or taking the hit. So we took the hit,” told Hilton’s car driver to the gossip site TMZ.com.

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