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George Michael: Arrested after car accident
In the early hours of yesterday, George Michael was arrested as his Land Rover collided with another vehicle.
The forty six-year-old singer was taken to Lodden Valley police station and was questioned by police on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs. He was then released without charge at around 5.55am.
Michael had just completed a 2-year driving ban.
He was held after his silver Land Rover hit a lorry on the A34 in Berkshire at around 1am.
A spokeswoman for Thames Valley police said: "Officers were called at 1am on August 14 to a collision on the southbound carriageway of the A34, approximately two miles north of the M4. It was between a silver Land Rover and an articulated lorry. The driver of the Land Rover, a 46-year-old man, was arrested at the scene."
According to Laurie Rowe, the driver of the lorry: "He seemed completely disorientated, like he had no idea what was going on. He looked totally dazed and even tried to climb into the cab of my lorry. He kept saying he was worried he would go to jail."
Rowe, from Scotland, said he saw the silver 4x4 weaving from one side of the road to the other in his rear view mirror seconds before the crash.
"He hit me so hard that it knocked my rear axle two feet up in the air," he said. "When I stopped the lorry and got out to see what had happened, I didn't think he would have survived."
The singer was banned from driving for 2 years and sentenced to hundred hours community service in June 2007 after pleading guilty to driving while unfit through drugs. |