Actor Lohan Arrested After Car Accident

Lindsay Lohan, the US actor whose off-screen antics are liable to attract as much attention, if not more, than her on-screen performances, has been arrested in Los Angeles suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after a crash on Sunset Boulevard.

Lohan lost control of her Mercedes convertible, which hit a kerb on Saturday. She was picked up by another car and taken to hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries and subsequently arrested. Two others in the car were reported to have been uninjured. The Beverly Hills police department said yesterday that a substance suspected to be cocaine had been found in the Mercedes. She is scheduled to appear in court on August 24.

Lohan, 20, rose to fame for roles in the films Parent Trap and Freaky Friday. She also had a part in Bobby, a film about the day Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

The crash was Lohan's third accident in about two years. In October 2005, she and a passenger received minor injuries when her convertible hit a van in West Hollywood. Months earlier, Lohan collided with a minivan carrying paparazzi that had followed her from a restaurant.

Lohan told Allure magazine's May issue that she entered West Hollywood's Wonderland Centre at the suggestion of her therapist. "It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said I would die before I went to rehab," she said.