Photo by Martin Austermuhle.

During a brief break from the debtsanity on the Hill yesterday, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton decided to head over the Eastern Market to pick up her “usual stock” of bananas and flowers. On her way back, Norton’s Ford Fusion hybrid was bumped by a police cruiser on North Carolina Avenue SE.

Did the phoenix of Helleanor rise again from the ashes of the Delegate’s normally sunny disposition after the accident? Nah. The Post reports that Norton, who wasn’t hurt in the accident, got out and exchanged apologies with the officer driving the cruiser, then police gave her a ride home.

Hey, she doesn’t win elections by 80 points for no reason, you know.