A 28-year-old man has appeared before magistrates in Boston, Lincolnshire after he was caught drink driving in the south of the county.
The court heard that police received a report just after midnight on February 11 that a shirtless man driving a car may be over the alcohol limit.
Fion McClelland, prosecuting, said that police spotted the car driving toward them, swerving over the road with a headlight out.
After turning their vehicle around, the officers found the car parked on a nearby driveway with the engine and lights switched off.
After testing positive for alcohol in a roadside breath test the man was arrested.
Mis McClelland added: ”He said he’d taken a quantity of co-codamol that evening and because of this they took him to Pilgrim Hospital for his own safety.”
A urine sample taken following the man’s arrest found him to have 213mg alcohol per 100ml, putting him very nearly twice the legal drink driving limit of 107mg.
Mitigating, Philippa Chatterton explained that her client had been going through an “extremely difficult time” and suffered from mental health issues. He had left a property with the intention of sleeping in his car, but then decided to return.
The man was handed a 19-month driving ban and ordered to pay a £120 fine plus £85 costs and a £48 victim surcharge. His ban may be reduced by 19 weeks on completion of the drink driving rehabilitation course.
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