George Michael Lightly Injured in Car Crash

British pop star George Michael suffered minor injuries in a car crash on a motorway north of London, his publicist said Friday.

The 49-year-old, who shot to fame as a member of the 1980s pop duo Wham!, is "fine" after the car he was travelling in crashed on the M1 route on Thursday evening, Connie Filippello said in a statement.

"George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident yesterday evening, no third party was involved," Filippello said.

"He is being treated for superficial cuts and bruises but is fine. We have no further comment at this time."

The East of England Ambulance Service said another man in his 40s had been airlifted to a specialist unit in London with head injuries after the crash.

Officials said three ambulances and an air ambulance were dispatched to the scene.

This is the latest in a string of car-related calamities for Michael.

The "Careless Whisper" singer served a four-week prison sentence in 2010 after he crashed his Range Rover into a shop in north London while under the influence of cannabis.

Three years earlier he had been found collapsed in his Mercedes and had admitted another drug-driving charge, but avoided jail with 100 hours of community service sentence and a two-year driving ban.

Michael was forced to cut short his Symphonica tour in Austria in November 2011 after he was rushed to a hospital in the capital Vienna with a severe bout of pneumonia.

The singer, who has sold more than 20 million copies of his 1987 debut solo album "Faith", later admitted it was "touch and go" at times during the month he spent in hospital.