Raheem Sterling has been charged with harmful driving and possession of laughing fuel after his £270,000 Lamborghini crashed in Might, it has been reported.
The previous Premier League star, 31, who was arrested on the scene of the collision, faces two years in jail if convicted of the costs.
Police had been known as to the M3 in Hampshire on Might 28 to reviews of a Lamborghini swerving across the highway simply earlier than 9am.
Footage obtained by the Every day Mail confirmed the black luxurious 4×4 veering throughout the three carriageways as different autos dodged out of the way in which.
The driving force seemed to be inhaling from a balloon – which is how individuals ingest laughing fuel, also called ‘hippy crack’.
Minutes later, Sterling allegedly crashed the automobile into the motorway boundaries and was cuffed by Hampshire Police.
The drive mentioned he wouldn’t give a pattern after his arrest – resulting in a 3rd cost of failing to to provide a specimen.
A Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary spokesman told The Sun: ‘Raheem Sterling, 31, from Berkshire, has been charged for the next offences: harmful driving, possession of nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation, failing to offer a specimen.
Raheem Sterling has reportedly been charged with harmful driving, possession of nitrous oxide, and failing to provide a specimen
Footage obtained by the Every day Mail confirmed Starling’s black Lamborghini M-way scraping the motorway central reservation, minutes earlier than it crashed
The driving force seemed to be inhaling from a balloon, simply seen as a darkish circle above
‘The fees come following a single automobile collision, involving a Lamborghini, on the M3 southbound, near the Minley Interchange, on 28 Might, 2026.’
They added that Sterling is because of seem at Basingstoke Magistrates Courtroom on September 15.
The fees mark a brand new low for Sterling, who left Chelsea in January after being dropped from their line-up and never enjoying since Might 2024.
In February he joined Dutch membership Feyenoord Rotterdam, however that deal resulted in summer time and he has been with no membership since – regardless of desirous to play.
The motorist who offered the dashcam footage of Sterling’s sports activities automobile swerving advised the Mail: ‘I used to be within the center lane and with out warning a black Lamborghini pulled in entrance of me, forcing me to gradual.
‘I dropped again. I am a driving teacher in spite of everything.
‘The automobile turned again into the within lane however the driver put his foot down and veered proper throughout all three lanes and appeared to only keep away from hitting the central reservation.
‘It is a highly effective automobile and he may have simply gone via the central reservation if he’d hit the accelerator.
‘A van driver behind him was pressured to brake and he then shot off once more and turned again throughout three lanes once more into the within lane.
Sterling is engaged to long-term girlfriend Paige Milian (pictured)
Sterling, right here enjoying for Feyenoord in February, has been with no staff for the reason that summer time
‘This was all caught on dashcam from 8.45am on Thursday. It was simply earlier than Junction 4a southbound on the M3.
‘The motorist was all over however I had no thought it was Raheem Sterling till I noticed that he’d been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving by the Minley Interchange.
‘I like Raheem however as a driving teacher I am very involved.
‘He may have simply triggered himself – and others – an excessive amount of hurt. He was very lucky that he didn’t achieve this.’
Sterling’s representatives declined to remark when contacted by the Every day Mail after the crash, however a supply near the participant defined how he had had a hellish two years.
The supply mentioned: ‘The psychological pressure that has been placed on him is immeasurable. Remoted. The second he touches a ball, being advised he is a flop and he is completed. Mocked. Heckled.
‘He moved to the Netherlands to flee and rediscover his love for the sport however the negativity adopted. It has been an especially robust couple of years for him and this incident encompasses that.’
Sterling began his profession at QPR however broke via at Liverpool as an adolescent, earlier than leaving Anfield for Manchester Metropolis in 2015, the place he received ten main trophies, together with the Premier League 4 instances.
He performed 82 instances for the England senior staff, together with his final look within the 2-1 defeat by France within the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup.
Nevertheless, since leaving Metropolis for Chelsea in a £50million deal in 2022 he has endured a torrid spell, which noticed him exiled at Stamford Bridge earlier than a failed mortgage spell with Arsenal and a transfer to Dutch giants Feyenoord, the place he made simply eight appearances with no targets.
