Texting eyed in Bruce Jenner's fatal crash

Bruce Jenner was a driver in a four-car pileup in Malibu that killed one woman and injured seven others – and he's indirectly blaming his new-found celebrity as a former-Olympian man transitioning to becoming a reality-star woman.

The paparazzi made him do it.

But Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators plan to get search warrants to pull Jenner’s cell phone and records, The Los Angeles Times and the celebrity-gossip site TMZ reported on Sunday, to see if he might have been texting just before the fatal crash.

TMZ published pictures of Jenner moments before impact in which he appeared to be holding something in his left hand at chest level – but the object was obscured by the cars’ side-view mirror.

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Just before the crash, five paparazzi were following Jenner’s car.

The deadly wreck occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway Saturday afternoon, with the one-time Olympic gold medalist walking away from the crash.

Jenner, 65, who is reportedly transitioning from a man to a woman, told police he was fleeing five pursuing paparazzi when his Cadillac Escalade rear-ended a white Lexus. He was uninjured.

Jenner's dark blue Cadillac Escalade was towing a dune buggy in a trailer when he rear-ended a Lexus sedan being driven by an ­elderly woman.

The Lexus spun into oncoming traffic and smashed head-on into a Hummer. The driver of the Lexus, identified as 69-year-old widow Kim Howe of nearby Calabasas, was killed, reported the Daily Mail.

Sgt. Philip Brooks disputed the reports of a paparazzi chase preceding the wreck.

"That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, but it's always possible," said Brooks. "We can't confirm that."

Jenner passed a field sobriety test at the scene of the fatal wreck and went to a nearby hospital to provide a blood sample, according to Brooks.

"He is not under any investigation right now as far as driving while intoxicated," the sergeant said.

The Sheriff’s Department has opened a vehicular manslaughter investigation that will focus on all the surviving drivers, sources told CNN.