Was Britney Spears trying to dodge cops?

The Juice* debated long and hard amongst ourselves about whether we should even bother to write about Britney Spears' weekend car accident. The AP reports she got into a minor fender-bender on the freeway around 8:20 p.m. when she bumped the car in front of her in stop-and-go traffic, forcing that car to bump the car in front of it. No real damage, and no citations given. The end.

But now CelebTV has footage of Brit hopping into the passenger seat of her car so an unidentified man could take her place behind the driver's seat before the cops showed up. All the while, paparazzi are snapping away, catching the whole thing (see the video above).

Other gossip outlets would have you think she was doing something on the less-than-legal side. The Juice* is going to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she simply wanted more room to eat a cheeseburger or something while she waited.