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Lane Garrison's Other Car Crash -- New Details

Lane GarrisonTMZ has obtained details of "Prison Break" star Lane Garrison's other accident, which was caught on tape... from the man whose car was on the other end of the wreck.
The accident occurred outside of Hyde nightclub in West Hollywood on October 20, just seven weeks before Garrison was behind the wheel of his Land Rover when it slammed into a tree in Beverly Hills., killing 17-year-old high school student Vahagn Setian.

John Collins, who had been at the Laugh Factory that night, tells TMZ he was standing on the corner waiting for the valet to retrieve his black Infiniti M35 when he witnessed Lane Garrison's white Land Rover rear end his car at a stop light.

Collins approached the scene with two friends, and tells TMZ that Garrison asked if they could exchange information after they had moved the cars away from the middle of the intersection. Collins says he told Garrison "absolutely not!" and demanded his insurance information. At that point, Collins says he was told "I'm Lane Garrison," to which Collins replied, "I don't care." As a swarm of paparazzi surrounded the cars, the parties moved to a side street.

Collins says Garrison never mentioned any difficulty he was having with the car's brakes or alignment. Garrison's attorney Harland Braun told TMZ the car had been having "mechanical problems" as of late, and those issues could have contributed to the fatal crash.

In addition, Collins tells TMZ that Garrison personally called him after the accident and made it an "easy situation."

Lane's the one in a tough spot now.

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16. Alright people. Yes, This was an accident. Do you honestly think he would intentially kill someone? Do you know he went into a church recently and came out crying. How would you feel if you were in a terrible car accident (drunk or not) and someone died? No one has proven him drunk yet anyway. I am praying for him and the victims family. And that is what everyone else should being doing too.

Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Amanda

17. you guys who are defending him are a bunch of morons! How could you defend someone who knowingly gets into a car after drinking? I don't give a rats ass if it was 1 drink or 20? All it takes is 1 drink to make you lose partial mobility and reflexes. I bet if this was your family member, you wouldn't be feeling so sorry for Lane. Bad judgement on the kids too, but he was supposed to be the responsible adult/driver. It is sad he has to live with this "tradgedy", but he made a choice that nite....no one else....and as a result, a mom and dad will never get to see there child grow into an adult.....

Posted at 8:23PM on Dec 12th 2006 by kat

18. Prove that he was drunk, you idiot.

Posted at 9:08PM on Dec 12th 2006 by lol

19. "you guys that are defending him are a bunch of morons"

So says the dumb bitch that can't even spell simple English words learned in 2nd grade. Go to school, MORON.

Posted at 9:10PM on Dec 12th 2006 by l.a. loves teen sluts

20. Is TMZ going to post an update every time Lane takes a f***ing dump? GIVE IT A REST.

Posted at 9:12PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Jake Wheeler Fan

21. lol and? Why was the moron's car parked in the middle of the road? You people act like you've never heard of a f***ing fender bender before. Lots of people call up other people and offer to pay without lawyers. BIG DEAL. POST SOMETHING ARTICLE-WORTHY.

Posted at 9:17PM on Dec 12th 2006 by kimber

22. I love how people are sh*tting their pants about Lane making it an easy situation, yet no one is saying how "John Collins" didn't HAVE to take the money (which he obviously did)

Posted at 9:20PM on Dec 12th 2006 by John Collins

23. Obviously this Joan Collins guy wanted to get on the website, because this article means f*** all to the current accident. If anything, it only supports Harland Braun's faulty brake story. He couldn't stop, so he ran into some attention-starved moron's car parked at a stoplight (???)

Posted at 9:23PM on Dec 12th 2006 by jay z

24. "Lane's the one in a tough spot now."

omg that is such a ~diss~

how juvenile.

Posted at 9:33PM on Dec 12th 2006 by olivia garrison

25. My question last night was that I wanted to know who Nicole Ritchie was talking to on her cell phone, my question tonight, like a few of the other postings, is, what was he doing with those kids? I have a son his age, and would damn sure, after I told him exactly how we as a family were dealing with the drinking and driving, would want to know what he was doing with teenagers?

But, as sad as it, we as the American public are still so interested in pop culture.

Its all good.

Posted at 9:44PM on Dec 12th 2006 by keely

26. Will someone please shoot this guy in the head? Where's the kid's pissed off father? One of you guys claiming to be his classmate please tell his dad he can barrow my gun.

Posted at 9:44PM on Dec 12th 2006 by entrodelflego

27. I understand someone died from all of this and thats a horrible thing, however despite the fact that he's a celebrity, they knew he had been drinking, and made the decision to get in the car with him. They may have been only teenagers, but they clearly made a wrong choice by getting in that car, and lane made a wrong choice by driving that car. Everyone here is a victim.

Posted at 2:21PM on Dec 13th 2006 by ACM

28. lol will you please grow up? I'm waiting for the "what have you guys done that you need to stick up for this guy?" Will someone please shoot you in the head? The dead kid doesn't even have a dad, he was living with his mom. Idiot.

Posted at 9:50PM on Dec 12th 2006 by kelis

29. Yes, because actually murdering someone is the answer.

Some of you people need to get lives. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be checking up on this sh*t.

Posted at 9:54PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Gwen

30. Of course this is devastating for the victim's family and friends. But I agree with numerous other posts - it was obviously an accident, whether he'd been drinking or not. It would definitely have been the last thing he would have wanted to happen. The poor guy will have to wake up every day for the rest of his life with this on his shoulders... sometimes that's punishment enough.

Posted at 3:14AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Kelly

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