Justin Bieber Fine After Minor Collision 
 
 LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Justin Bieber arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles, on August 28, 2011Justin Bieber’s Ferrari is a little less pristine on Tuesday afternoon after the singer was involved in a minor car collision on Tuesday in Los Angeles. 
 
 Authorities in the Valley area of LA confirmed to Access Hollywood that the Canadian singing sensation was involved in the collision around noon PT. 
 
 According to the police, a Honda Civic collided with Justin’s Ferrari. 
 
 Justin was driving at the time and he had a passenger in his car, the LA Police Department told Access. Authorities believe the passenger was the Biebs’ assistant. 
 
 There was no injury or damage to either car, authorities confirmed. 
 
 Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ||||| Los Angeles (CNN) -- Paparazzi have had nasty run-ins with pop star Justin Bieber, including a high-speed chase in July that prompted a city councilman to predict that such an encounter could end tragically. 
 
 It happened Tuesday. 
 
 A photographer who thought he spied Bieber sitting in his parked white Ferrari was struck and killed by oncoming traffic as he walked across a Los Angeles street to get back to his car after snapping photos. 
 
 An opportune picture of the 18-year-old celebrity can rake in hard currency, but Bieber was not in the car at the time of the New Year's Day incident. 
 
 California Highway Patrol officers had pulled over Bieber's vehicle Tuesday evening near an off-ramp of Interstate 405. 
 
 The photographer, 29, spotted the sports car stopped on Sepulveda Boulevard, parked his own vehicle across the street, crossed to get closer to Bieber's car and took photos of its occupants, Los Angeles police said. 
 
 Officers told the man twice to return to his car, CNN affiliate KTLA reported. 
 
 An SUV struck the paparazzo as he was returning across the street to leave, Stoughton said. 
 
 Authorities have not released his name. Police said in a statement that the driver of the SUV, a 69-year-old woman, stayed at the scene. There was no evidence that the woman was driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, authorities said. 
 
 "While I was not present nor directly involved with this tragic accident, my thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim," Bieber said in a statement. 
 
 "Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photographers themselves." 
 
 In July, a group of paparazzi chased Bieber in separate vehicles down a freeway, whizzing past a Los Angeles city councilman, Dennis Zine, a reservist on the LAPD. 
 
 "He was coming up behind me, making abrupt lane changes, not giving signals, cutting off cars," Zine said. The photographers were keeping up with Bieber, thick on his heels. 
 
 Zine said he expected to see a crash and feared someone could die. 
 
 The lawmaker, known for supporting tough measures against obnoxious paparazzi behavior, alerted the highway patrol, who ticketed Bieber for speeding in his Fisker Karma, an expensive plug-in hybrid sports car. 
 
 A photographer was slapped with criminal charges, including reckless driving. 
 
 CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report
– Relax, girls. Not a hair on Justin Bieber's head is out of place, even though a Honda Civic collided with the black Ferrari he was driving in Los Angeles yesterday. Neither driver was injured and Bieb's assistant, who was a passenger in his car, was similarly unharmed; no damage was reported, according to Access Hollywood. Maybe he didn't get out of the way fast enough because he was dreaming about winning the award for best male video at the MTV Video Music Awards—and punking pal Taylor Swift while filming the first new episode of Punk'd last week.