Actress Mary-Kate Olsen had a close call during a bicycle ride in New York last month, when she almost collided with another cyclist in the city.

The star was enjoying a sporty day out with her boyfriend Nate Lowman in the city's East Village on 29 April.

But Olsen gave her boyfriend a scare by choosing to ride against the flow of traffic - and cut up another cyclist.

A source tells the National Enquirer, "Other bikers were riding with traffic, while Mary-Kate and Nate were riding against traffic so they should have been the ones to move out of the way. But they didn't, and Mary-Kate nearly collided with one of the bikers going the other way.

"He (Lowman) yelled, 'You're crazy, Mary-Kate! You almost killed us!"

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The 22-year-old grew up in the spotlight alongside twin sister Mary-Kate, starring in U.S. TV sitcom Full House at the tender age of nine months. The pair are already partners in women's fashion collection The Row, and now Ashley's taking over the reigns of the project while her sister continues to act.

She tells Vman magazine, "I've been transitioning from acting as a kid to doing something that I'm choosing for myself - to be part of the fashion industry. That's what I want for my future. It has nothing to do with my past, nothing to do with anyone else's agenda. And I followed my heart the whole way. The Row is really something that I'm doing while my sister still wants to focus on acting. She's my partner in The Row, but she trusts me with the everyday. I mean, I see her like 10 times a day."

And Ashley, who is expanding the collection to include men's wear in the autumn, is urging critics not to dismiss her line as just another celebrity brand. She adds, "The outside perception is very different because you do have celebrity brands, people like Jessica Simpson and Kimora Lee Simmons, and those are celebrity brands because they have their names on it."

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