Overview
- Hampshire Police said just before 9am on Thursday that a Lamborghini had collided with southbound barriers near the Minley Interchange on the M3, with no other vehicles involved and no injuries reported.
- The driver, identified in media reports as 31-year-old Raheem Sterling, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs, dangerous driving, possession of a Class C drug and failing to provide a specimen.
- Officers later released the 31-year-old on bail while enquiries continue and have not publicly confirmed any substances in his system.
- A source close to Sterling described him as having suffered severe psychological strain during a difficult run of club form, while stressing the arrest is a suspicion and not a conviction.
- The incident adds a new legal and reputational complication to Sterling’s recent career decline after moves from Manchester City to Chelsea, a loan at Arsenal, mutual termination in January and a short spell at Feyenoord.