Bedingfield charged with careless driving

British-based pop star Daniel Bedingfield has been charged with careless use of a motor vehicle following a crash in which he fractured two vertebrae in his neck, police in Wellington, New Zealand said today.

The 24-year-old New Zealand-born singer crashed the car he was driving on January 2 after attending a Youth For Christ rural summer camp. He had to be cut from the wreckage by emergency crews. Bedingfield’s passenger was unhurt in the crash.