Crashes come early and often in Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, but this one wasn’t in the script: Bumblebee, the superstar Camaro Autobot, T-boned a real Washington, D.C., police Tahoe on the first day of filming for Transformers 3. (Blame the terrorists) A bomb technician in a marked SUV, on his way to a suspicious package, roared into an area of 3rd St. on the Washington Mall that had been closed for filming by other D.C. cops, who reportedly were on a different radio frequency. The Chevy SUV dodges an Autobot convoy led by the semi Optimus Prime and into the path of Bumblebee entering from Maryland Ave. The officer, stunt driver (spoiler) and Tahoe suffered minor injuries. Bumblebee took it on the chin however.
The scene was supposed to involve damage to a Decepticon Corvette.