Shia LaBeouf, who has recently starred in the blockbuster Indian Jones’ movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has once again had a run in with the law. For a relative newcomer to Hollywood he sure is racking up the arrests. His latest police snafu puts him in the ever coveted DUI club.

Stoked on his rising stardom, and of course some booze, Shia attempted to take a left turn going the speed of a transformer resulting in a crash with another vehicle, flipping his truck over. The fender bender took place at around 3 am Sunday morning. According to Sergeant Wolfe of Los Angeles County, “It was immediately apparent to officers responding on the scene that LaBeouf was intoxicated and he was subsequently placed under arrest.”

An unknown woman passenger and the people in the other car were uninjured, walking away with minor bumps and bruises, while LaBeouf himself sustained injuries to his knee, hand and possibly his head. He is being charged with misdemeanor DUI rather than felony DUI because no one else was seriously injured. Shia himself ended up having to have extensive surgery to his injured hand, resulting in a month long delay of his filming for the Transformer sequel. He is reportedly still in the hospital, where he was cited for the drunk driving.

No one should really be surprised that he has graduated to a DUI. In the past the young star has been in trouble for wielding a knife against a neighbor and being wasted at a Walgreens. Maybe he’s just trying to fit in to the whole Hollywood scene. After all, you’re nobody in young Hollywood unless you’ve been arrested. And DUI seems to be the fashionable thing to do. Maybe a stint in rehab is in his future. If that is the case, then he’s got it made in the shade.

Looks like Shia LaBeouf has had a bit of luck. Despite the fact that he is under suspicion of drinking while driving for that early morning crash Sunday, he is not at fault for the accident. The driver of the other vehicle ran a red light, causing the fender bender that sent Shia into surgery for a shattered hand.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Whitmore has said that the Indiana Jones actor “was not at fault.” According to Whitmore, the Sheriff’s office has strong evidence that the other driver ran a red light. “As a result of this new evidence the other driver is also being charged.” Even though the accident wasn’t his fault, it doesn’t get the actor off on the misdemeanor DUI charge, even though he has yet to be formally charged. According to officers on the scene, LaBeouf showed “obvious signs of intoxication from the smell of alcohol coming from his breath.”

But it seems that not everyone believes that the young actor was indeed drunk. It has been confirmed that the unidentified female passenger with Shia at the time of the accident was his Transformers 2 co-star Isabel Lucas. Lucas was not seriously injured in the crash and was treated at Mount Sinai hospital for minor cuts and bruises. Neither Isabel nor her mother Beatrice believes that Shia had been drinking before getting behind the wheel. And Beatrice Lucas has spoken out about the accident. She told Australia’s Cairn Post that she doesn’t think that LaBeouf was intoxicated and driving. Why? Because she doesn’t think her daughter would be dumb enough to get in the car with someone drunk. “Isabel would not get into the car with someone she thought was drink-driving.” Everyone else at the crash site has indicated that Shia smelt like a brewery. Maybe alcohol smells different in Australia.