Lindsay Lohan’s summer is off to a terrible start.
The actress was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday after the rehab veteran crashed her Mercedes convertible in Beverly Hills shortly before dawn.
Lohan, 20, who could face more charges, was slightly injured after her car struck a Sunset Boulevard curb about 5:30 a.m., Beverly Hills police said. Two other people in the 2005 Mercedes SL-65 were not hurt.
The “Georgia Rule” and “Mean Girls” star left the scene of the crash and was taken by an unidentified “associate” to Century City Doctors Hospital in L.A., Lt. Mitch McCann said.
Someone also drove off the heavily damaged Mercedes, which police located at a nearby condominium complex, McCann said.
He said a substance believed to be cocaine also was found in the car. Officers at the scene found a “usable amount” of a drug tentatively identified as cocaine, McCann said. He declined to say where the drug was found other than to say Lohan was not carrying it. The investigation is focusing on the apparent drug and the circumstances of the crash and its aftermath, McCann said.
“She lost control of her vehicle,” the lieutenant said.
Officers responding to a 911 call tracked down and arrested Lohan at the hospital, he said. She was cited on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, a misdemeanor, and released for treatment of a chest injury, McCann said.
He said the case will be presented to prosecutors next week, but Lohan will have to wait until later this summer for her court date, which is scheduled for Aug. 24.
Lohan checked herself into a L. A. rehabilitation clinic in January, and has attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist and mother have said.
