Lindsay Lohan was charged with seven misdemeanors on Thursday stemming from a pair of traffic incidents from earlier in the summer.
She avoided felony charges of drug possession because tests indicated less than the necessary .05 grams of cocaine to warrant them.
Lohan was charged with two counts each of DUI, driving with a blood-alcohol level above .08 percent and being under the influence of cocaine, as well as one count of reckless driving.
In California, one DUI can result in a maximum 6 month prison stay and a $1,000 fine, and a second DUI could lead to up to a year in jail. She faced up to three years if she had been charged and convicted of drug possession.
It's hard to tell how much time, if any, Lohan will serve. Paris Hilton recently spent 23 days in jail after driving on a suspended license when on probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving charge, whereas Nicole Richie was only ordered to 4 days in prison for a DUI, to be completed by the end of September.
But Lohan also faces lawsuits from the second accident, in which she allegedly hijacked an occupied car in order to follow her former assistant in a high-speed chase. A passenger in the assistent's car sued for assault and negligence.
