Katie Price, 43, is charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance after troubled star’s family rallied round her over 6.20am crash on rural lane in Sussex
- Katie Price is charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance
- Model, 43, remanded in custody and will be at Crawley Remand Court today
- Price is accused of flipping her BMW at 6.20am yesterday on Sussex rural road
- Mother-of-five has no driving licence after disqualification for two years in 2019
Katie Price will appear in court today after being charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance following a crash on a rural lane.
The 43-year-old model was remanded in custody and will appear at Crawley Remand Court this morning after family and friends rallied round her following her arrest.
Price, from Horsham, West Sussex, who is banned from driving, is accused of flipping her BMW on a country road at 6.20am near West Grinstead yesterday.
The mother-of-five could now face jail. She has no driving licence after being disqualified for two years in 2019, and has been banned from the roads six times.
Katie Price, 46, attending the National Television Awards 2021 at The O2 on September 9
A photograph tweeted by a police officer showed a damaged BMW lying on its side across both lanes of a country road near West Grinstead, its front lodged in the hedgerow
A photograph tweeted by a local police officer showed a damaged BMW lying on its side across both lanes, its front lodged in the hedgerow, after the crash.
A local said: ‘Luckily no other vehicles were involved in the crash and it happened away from houses. It sounds like the person behind the wheel is going to be OK.’
Driving while disqualified can result in a maximum sentence of 26 weeks in prison. It comes as Price’s family last night expressed fears for her mental health.
They said in a statement: ‘We have for some time been concerned about Kate’s wellbeing and overall mental health. Today our worst fears nearly came true.
Price told Good Morning Britain of her pain that being disqualified from driving meant she could not visit her disabled son Harvey (pictured on September 9) at his residential college
‘As a family we have been and will continue to help Kate get the help she needs. We hope that she will realise that she cannot battle her issues alone.’
The smash came a day after Price said being disqualified from driving meant she could not visit her disabled son Harvey at his residential college in Gloucestershire.
She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: ‘Harvey’s in Cheltenham now, he keeps ringing me saying, ‘Mummy I miss you, I need your kisses and cuddles’, so it is quite hard.
‘Because obviously I don’t get my licence back until December, so I can’t just whizz in the car down there and it’s not close.’
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