Actor Robert Pattinson arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Inglourious Basterds" at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival May 20, 2009. REUTERS/Jean Paul Pelissier
Flanked by five security guards, the British actor tried to run past a group of teenage girls who had gathered outside the bookstore and cross the street to his trailer when the accident happened.
He was not seriously injured, but his bodyguards reportedly were furious, according to RadarOnline.com which claimed to have witnessed the accident. One of the bodyguards yelled at the girls: "You see what you did, you almost killed him!"
Pattinson's manager did not comment on the accident.
Pattinson has become one of the hottest properties in Hollywood since appearing in "Twilight" as brooding vampire Edward Cullen.
This week he was voted the world's most handsome man by online readers of Vanity Fair.
OMG!!!he got hit?!?Man!hope hes not injured,badly..if not all the girl fans out there will cry and go mad(including me n my sis)...