Katie Price has avoided jail after flipping her car in a crash and admitting drink-driving while disqualified.

The 43-year-old former glamour model has been handed a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, as well as a two-year driving ban.

Price told officers after the collision, which happened near to her home in Sussex in September: “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.”

The star had been driving to visit a nearby friend when the crash occurred at around 6.20am on 28 September, Crawley Magistrates’ Court heard previously. She was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital.

A drugs wipe gave a positive reading for cocaine and a roadside breath test taken by Price following the accident the previous day was positive for alcohol, the court heard.

Price’s sentencing had been adjourned at an earlier hearing on the condition that she have treatment at the Priory Centre, not commit any further offences, and be banned from driving in the interim.

Sentencing on Wednesday, the judge told the star her actions were “incredibly selfish” and that when she “chose to get behind the wheel… intoxicated” she showed “no concern at all for the life of others”.

“You appear to think you are above the law,” the judge said, adding that the star has one of the worst driving records she has ever seen.

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