Singer Suggs — whose hits include Driving In My Car — stole a motor and crashed it into a tree as a teen

SINGER Suggs — whose hits include Driving In My Car — stole a motor and crashed it into a tree when he was a teen.

The Madness frontman said he was trying to get to the pub with pals.

Suggs, 62, was asked in an interview to reveal the worst thing that he had ever done.

He admitted: “Stealing my mate’s dad’s gold Ford Granada and then crashing it into a tree on Hampstead Heath, whereupon it caught fire.

“He was away on holiday and we found the keys.

“I was about 15 or 16 and we were trying to get to the pub.

“I couldn’t even legally drive.”

Asked what happened afterwards, Suggs — real name Graham McPherson — said: “The people who owned the car never spoke to me again.”

Driving In My Car, which includes the line “It’s not quite a Jaguar”, got to No4 in 1982.