Britney Spears’ car ran out of gas on California highway at night, police say

The officers arrived to find the pop star sitting in the back of a good Samaritan passerby’s vehicle in the lane beside her own car. Photo: AP

The car that Britney Spears was driving ran out of gas Tuesday (July 12) on a busy California highway – and the cops were called.

The ...Baby One More Time singer, 40, was driving on the freeway Tuesday night when she told California Highway Patrol (CHP) her car ran out of gas, according to an incident report obtained by the Daily News.