Lohan caught up in paparazzo accident

Lindsay Lohan was caught up in controversy early yesterday after hitting a paparazzo while trying to drive away from New York club Butter.

As the photographer writhed around on the floor, the Mean Girls star was escorted out of her white BMW and into a minder's black SUV nearby.

An ambulance was called to the scene and the unnamed snapper was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for a bruised knee and later released.

Lohan and her entourage then raced through the New York streets to escape the snappers on her tail, and when the vehicle she was a passenger in drove the wrong way up a one-way street, the paparazzi followed and two photographers were pulled over by police and cited.

The actress reportedly returned to the scene of the accident an hour later.