Singer Britney Spears faces hit and run charges
{{date|September 22, 2007}}
[[Image:Britney-Spears082.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Britney Spears performing in Los Angeles, CA in 2004. {{image source|[[w:User:BUDSMR|BUDSMR]]}}]]
The [[w:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] City Attorney's Office said yesterday that [[w:pop music|pop music]] super-star [[w:Britney Spears|Britney Spears]] was facing charges for a [[w:hit and run|hit and run]] offence and driving without a valid drivers' license. 

Charges were filed following an accident in which police allege Spears smashed her car into another vehicle in a parking area in August of 2007.

She could face a maximum of six months in jail and US$2,000 in fines if convicted.

A group of paparazzi recorded a video Britney steering her car into another vehicle on August 6 as she tried to pull into a parking spot in a Studio City lot. 

Kim Robard-Rifkin was the owner of the other car and she filed a police report three days after the accident. The 59-year-old nurse found out that it was Spears who ran into her car after watching a video on a celebrity website. 

Robard-Rifkin said, "I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody's car if I had done that."

Spears will be arraigned on October 10.

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== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/22/spears.legal.woes.ap/index.html
|title=Britney Spears faces hit-run charge
|author=AP
|pub=CNN
|date=September 22, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2145435720070922
|title=Britney Spears charged with hit-and-run in L.A.
|author=Reuters
|pub=Reuters
|date=September 22, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.etonline.com/news/2007/09/54290/index.html
|title=Britney Spears Hit with Misdemeanors
|author=ET Online
|pub=ET Online
|date=September 22, 2007}}

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Britney Spears performing in Los Angeles, CA in 2004. 
The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said yesterday that pop music super-star Britney Spears was facing charges for a hit and run offence and driving without a valid drivers' license. 

Charges were filed following an accident in which police allege Spears smashed her car into another vehicle in a parking area in August of 2007.

She could face a maximum of six months in jail and US$2,000 in fines if convicted.

A group of paparazzi recorded a video Britney steering her car into another vehicle on August 6 as she tried to pull into a parking spot in a Studio City lot. 

Kim Robard-Rifkin was the owner of the other car and she filed a police report three days after the accident. The 59-year-old nurse found out that it was Spears who ran into her car after watching a video on a celebrity website. 

Robard-Rifkin said, "I simply want my car fixed, the same as I would fix somebody's car if I had done that."

Spears will be arraigned on October 10.
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