Actress Johansson Calm on Accident 911 Tape

A tape of the 911 call that actress Scarlett Johansson made to police while she was allegedly surrounded by paparazzi after a minor car accident near Disneyland last week indicates that she kept her cool.

“Hi, we’ve just gotten into an accident,” the 20-year-old star of “Lost in Translation” and “The Island” calmly tells the dispatcher.

No one was reported hurt in the mishap.

“Unfortunately,” the actress tells the unidentified male dispatcher, “we have a bunch of paparazzi cars also following us.”

“Why?” he asks.

“I’m Scarlett Johansson, an actor. They’ve been following us all the way here. But we’ve gotten into an accident -- not with the paparazzi, but with a woman behind us.”

The tape was released by the California Highway Patrol after statements by Johansson’s publicist that the actress had hit a car carrying a family while trying to elude four SUVs full of celebrity photographers that had followed her from her home in Hollywood.

The owner of a photo agency acknowledged this week that some of his photographers had been trailing Johansson for four days and had tracked her to Anaheim. But he denied that they had contributed to the accident.

“Our photographers were about a block [behind her] when the collision occurred,” said Arnold Cousart, co-owner of JFX Direct photo agency. “She was basically by herself.... There wasn’t any car behind her closer than 40 yards.”

According to the 911 tape, that may not have been the case immediately after the accident. “About the media,” the dispatcher asks Johansson at one point. “Are they starting ... to cause problems?”

“They’ve pulled all around us,” the actress replies, “waiting for us to -- “

“Gotcha,” the dispatcher responds, cutting her off. “OK, I’m going to ... roll a couple of [units] out there, OK, Miss Johansson?”

Although her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, initially said the accident occurred in a Disneyland parking lot, the 911 tape suggests that it happened outside the park, on Disneyland Drive near the entrance to the Santa Ana Freeway.

“We pulled off to the side,” Johansson says on the tape.

The incident came two months after a celebrity photographer was arrested on suspicion of hitting actress Lindsay Lohan’s car near the Beverly Center mall.

And in other recent cases involving police, celebrities have complained of increasingly aggressive tactics by paparazzi.