Former child star Amanda Bynes is not out of the woods regarding two hit and run accidents she was involved in this year.
What a girl doesn't want is another legal headache.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office tells E! News that prosecutors have reopened Amanda Bynes' previous hit-and-run case that they originally rejected.
The news comes after the starlet reportedly got into another ding-and-dash on Aug. 4 and then left the scene of the accident.
"Both incidents are under review, but no decision has yet been made," the spokesperson said.
The first alleged hit-and-run occurred on April 10. Per a report by TMZ, the Hairspray actress was behind the wheel of a rental when she slammed into the rear of a BMW on the 101 Freeway and then drove away. However, the city attorney's office declined to prosecute for lack of any witnesses that could testify that Amanda did the dinging.
In the second incident, which prompted the city attorney to take another look, Bynes was accused of rear-ending another woman's car with her BMW on Aug. 4 in the San Fernando Valley. She then allegedly failed to provide the driver with her insurance information as required by law and took off without calling police.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Bynes later told authorities that she and the driver both agreed that the fender-bender wasn't significant enough to report, but the other woman filed a police report anyway after realizing her car needed $800 worth of repairs.
The city attorney's spokesman had not seen the latter police report and was therefore unable to speculate exactly what the charges might be.
Troy Slaten, a criminal defense attorney not involved in Bynes' case, tells E! News that the L.A. City Attorney has a year from the date of the incident to make the decision on whether to file misdemeanor charges against her.
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