George Michael was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs yesterday – only two months after the return of his his licence from a UK Ban.

The singer was breathalysed at the side of the road and taken into police custody after his £60,000 Range Rover crashed into the back of an articulated lorry.

He was held at the police station for almost five hours before being released without charge. Laurie Rowe, the driver of the lorry, said: ‘He seemed completely disorientated, like he had no idea what was going on.

He looked totally dazed and even tried to climb into the cab of my lorry. He kept saying he was worried he would go to jail.’

Michael, 46, crashed into the lorry on the A34 in Berkshire in the early hours yesterday.

Mr Rowe, from Scotland, said he saw the  Range Rover weaving from one side of the road to the other in his rear view mirror moments before the collision occurred.

The impact of the crash was so great the lorry driver feared Michael was dead.

‘He hit me so hard that it knocked my rear axle two feet up in the air,’ he said.

‘When I stopped the lorry and got out to see what had happened, I didn’t think he would have survived.’

Michael was taken to Lodden Valley police station, near Reading, and released without charge at 5.55am.

His arrest comes two months after he completed a two-year driving ban.

The singer had his licence taken away and was sentenced to 100 hours community service after he was found slumped at the wheel of his Mercedes in North London in October 2006.

He admitted a charge of driving while unfit in June the following year, saying he was guilty due to a combination of tiredness and having taken prescription drugs.

A spokesman for Michael dismissed news of his arrest as ‘rubbish’, but refused to comment further.>celeb