Raheem Sterling has been charged with dangerous driving and possession of laughing gas after his £270,000 Lamborghini crashed in May, it has been reported.

The former Premier League star, 31, who was arrested at the scene of the collision, faces two years in prison if convicted of the charges.

Police were called to the M3 in Hampshire on May 28 to reports of a Lamborghini swerving around the road just before 9am.

Footage obtained by the Daily Mail showed the black luxury 4x4 veering across the three carriageways as other vehicles dodged out of the way.

The driver appeared to be inhaling from a balloon - which is how people ingest laughing gas, also known as 'hippy crack'.

Minutes later, Sterling allegedly crashed the vehicle into the motorway barriers and was cuffed by Hampshire Police.

The force said he would not give a sample after his arrest - leading to a third charge of failing to to supply a specimen.

A Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary spokesman told The Sun: 'Raheem Sterling, 31, from Berkshire, has been charged for the following offences: dangerous driving, possession of nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation, failing to provide a specimen.

'The charges come following a single vehicle collision, involving a Lamborghini, on the M3 southbound, close to the Minley Interchange, on 28 May, 2026.'

They added that Sterling is due to appear at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on September 15.

The charges mark a new low for Sterling, who left Chelsea in January after being dropped from their line-up and not playing since May 2024.

In February he joined Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam, but that deal ended in summer and he has been without a club since - despite wanting to play.

The motorist who provided the dashcam footage of Sterling's sports car swerving told the Mail: 'I was in the middle lane and without warning a black Lamborghini pulled in front of me, forcing me to slow.

'I dropped back. I'm a driving instructor after all.

'The car turned back into the inside lane but the driver put his foot down and veered right across all three lanes and seemed to just avoid hitting the central reservation.

'It's a powerful car and he could have easily gone through the central reservation if he'd hit the accelerator.

'A van driver behind him was forced to brake and he then shot off again and turned back across three lanes again into the inside lane.

'This was all caught on dashcam from 8.45am on Thursday. It was just before Junction 4a southbound on the M3.

'The motorist was all over the place but I had no idea it was Raheem Sterling until I saw that he'd been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving by the Minley Interchange.

'I like Raheem but as a driving instructor I'm very concerned.

'He could have easily caused himself - and others - a great deal of harm. He was very fortunate that he did not do so.'

Sterling's representatives declined to comment when contacted by the Daily Mail after the crash, but a source close to the player explained how he had had a hellish two years.

The source said: 'The psychological strain that has been put on him is immeasurable. Isolated. The second he touches a ball, being told he's a flop and he's finished. Mocked. Heckled.

'He moved to the Netherlands to escape and rediscover his love for the game but the negativity followed. It's been an extremely tough couple of years for him and this incident encompasses that.'

Sterling started his career at QPR but broke through at Liverpool as a teenager, before leaving Anfield for Manchester City in 2015, where he won ten major trophies, including the Premier League four times.

He played 82 times for the England senior team, with his last appearance in the 2-1 defeat by France in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup.

However, since leaving City for Chelsea in a £50million deal in 2022 he has endured a torrid spell, which saw him exiled at Stamford Bridge before a failed loan spell with Arsenal and a move to Dutch giants Feyenoord, where he made just eight appearances with no goals.