After hitting another car while attempting to park last month, Britney Spears was charged Friday (September 21) with misdemeanor hit and run causing property damage. She's also charged with driving without a valid license.

According to the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, the singer hit a parked car on or about August 6 in the San Fernando Valley without leaving a note for the driver of the other vehicle or filing a police report. The incident was caught on video (widely available on the Internet), in which Spears, driving a black convertible, hits a parked white station wagon.

"Uh-oh, I'm a brainiac," she tells the crowd of paparazzi photographers and videographers surrounding her. "Sorry about that. What do I do?" After parking her car, she gets out to examine her car, but not the one she hit. "Did I hurt my car?" she asks before examining the front end. "It's not bad." She's then videotaped walking away.

According to the California Vehicle Code, drivers are required to locate the owner of any damaged property or leave their information in a conspicuous place and inform local law enforcement of the incident. In the court papers filed Friday, the prosecution claims Spears "did willfully and unlawfully fail, neglect, and refuse" to do that.

The North Hollywood division of the Los Angeles police department then received a formal complaint from the victim on August 9, and then discovered that the Department of Motor Vehicles had no record of issuing a California driver's license to Spears — despite the wide array of photographs and video taken of the singer driving various cars throughout Southern California.

Spears faces a maximum of six months in jail and/or a $1,000 fine for each of the misdemeanor counts. Her arraignment is set for October 10. The singer recently suffered setbacks in her child-custody case (see "Britney Spears Must Undergo Regular Drug Testing, Parenting Classes In Custody Case").


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Who ever made the quote "when you hit rock bottom, there is no other way but up" is wrong! she's past rock bottom shes digging a hole. i'm sad of the fact that its ending up like this but hopefully possibly going to jail will do her good. it could be a sign telling her get your ass together and then maybe she'll have a better comeback. A Part of me is thinking her album is not coming out in november.

^That was me

Wow, I'm in shock. Britney's life is a MESS. Gawd girl, what's next for her life?

Ugh she needs to stop. I seriously thought she would make it back to normal life without following Paris, Nicole, and Lindsay to jail. WRONG. Hopefully they just give her a fine, this is her 1st offense.

LMAO. Bitch pay them a thousand and you're safe.

Its not as serious as everyone thinks but i swear if i read another britney drama i'm going to go crazy...i dont know what to think anymore because i really want her to have a good comeback and timing for this album was perfect but ever since the vmas things have just gotten worse and worse this part of the year was suppose to be her big comeback from all the negative press but shes getting bashed now more than ever so maybe they should just postpone the album and the whole 'comeback' for now because she obviously cant promote anything right now.

Then again...her comeback single is already out and doing well so pulling out of the project now would just be messy. GOSH this is the second time britney's perfect comeback got dampered

funny how people still worship her

Going to jail is like so last month. Get with the times Britney. African babies are IN!!

Unbelievable. ¬¬

And why not? She's the greatest thing happened to music and life since 1998. An icon never dies.

JAIL JAIL JAIL!!!

MOTHER****ER!

its people like you that cause christina fans to be stereotyped. i really cant blame you for coming in here though christina hardly does anything remotely interesting anyway...

**** YOU ROKR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry that your precious singer is SO perfect unlike Britney. She must have no flaws right? Must like that right? Well F U! At least Britney is showing the world she is HUMAN and not some ****ING perfection like Christina who tries to be perfect. Perfection = Robot....

I know, Christina's life =

Even her music sometimes is

At least Britney is entertaining us all (Insert Popcorn eating smily here)

Well I feel bad for Britney & I hope she can get through this, but Chistina's life isn't boring,she just makes smarter decisions in her career that Britney has, no offense.

^ agreed i still wish britney the best and hope she gets her life on track

is it that bad? she has to pay a small fine, and she´s clean then...drama queens

and don´t worry y´all, christina will be fine, tho she has nothing to with it

All the people should be like you.

And not like that dumbass of R`0`K`R