America’s sweetheart actress Sandra Bullock, who is filming “The Proposal” on Cape Ann, and her husband Jesse James, of “Monster Garage” TV fame, were hit while driving by a drunken driver last night in Gloucester, police said.

At 11 p.m. last night the Hollywood couple were being driven to their hotel in Eastern Point when a gray Subaru station wagon jumped lanes on East Main Street and smashed into their front end, police said.

Bullock and James were being driven by Mark Hussey, 54, of Londonderry, N.H., in a black SUV rent-a-car. The accident occurred in front of the Gloucester Laundromat. No injuries were sustained in the crash.

The driver of the Subaru, identified as Lucille Gatchell, 64, from Gloucester by local cops, was given a field sobriety test by officers responding to the scene. She blew an alcohol level two-and-a-half times over the legal limit, said Gloucester police, and was arrested on the scene.

Reached by phone this morning, Gatchell declined to comment, politely saying “no” to a Herald reporter.

“It’s unfortunate,” said Lt. Gerry Cook of the Gloucester Police Department. “But it shows you that no one is immune from drunk drivers, no matter how famous you are.”

Bullock has been in the area shooting a film in Rockport for the past three weeks.

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