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Raheem Sterling pleads guilty to dangerous driving before M3 crash

The England footballer also admitted possessing six nitrous oxide cannisters and failing to provide a specimen.

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Raheem Sterling has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after admitting he drove a Lamborghini Urus dangerously across several roads before a single-vehicle crash on 28 May.

Sterling entered the plea at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The dangerous-driving charge covered the M25, M3, A327 and Minley Road.

He also admitted possessing six nitrous oxide cannisters for wrongful inhalation, a class C drug offence, and failing to provide a specimen.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said the collision occurred on the M3 southbound near Minley interchange. Police said no other vehicles were involved and no injuries were reported.

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