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Maybe it’s just August doldrums, but I’m having a hard time getting too worked up about today’s revelation that Mayor Fenty’s weekend fender-bender may not have happened exactly the way his spokesperson first said. From the Post:

Spokeswoman Mafara Hobson wrote in an e-mail Sunday that “a vehicle ran a stop sign and pulled out in front of the Mayor’s vehicle, causing a collision.”

But the accident report says Fenty’s Lincoln Navigator was the “striking vehicle” in the crash with the Nissan Pathfinder.

City Desk posted the police report earlier, which shows that the officer who filed the accident report couldn’t determine who was at fault, and therefore declined to issue a ticket to either driver. That’s believable enough – sometimes in these kinds of minor accidents, it really is hard to say who was to blame.

It is slightly more disconcerting that, as the Post reports, it looks like a few police procedures were violated in the process of filing the accident report. The names of the children who were reportedly riding in Mayor Fenty’s SUV were not listed in the report, and no one took any crash scene photos, as they should have. But it seems like the answer to why that happened is because it wasn’t a regular patrol officer who wrote up the report: it was a member of Fenty’s security detail, who probably doesn’t write a lot of accident reports.