If you’re thinking of pushing your car home after a night at the pub, think again. A woman has had her licence suspended for three years for pushing a car while inebriated.
Christine Prescott’s ex-husband had been driving the car but he ditched it in favour of a nearby pub when it ran out of petrol near their home.....
After he left it in ‘a very dangerous place’, Prescott decided to push the car to a safer parking spot.
A member of the public spotted her pushing the Ford KA along Link Road in Sawston, Cambs, and called the police. A roadside breathalyser found she had 50 mgs of alcohol in 100mls of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.
She was charged with driving under the influence and using a car with no third party insurance.
Christine was already in breach of a 28-day driving ban for failing to stop after an accident which had been imposed a fortnight before the June 11 incident, so she was also charged with driving while disqualified.
Jim Dignan, mitigating on behalf of Prescott, stressed that she had been trying to undo her ex-husband’s dangerous parking. “He went off to the pub and left her to her own devices. She pushed it from a very dangerous place to a safer place,” he told the court.
Prosecutor Sally Rose conceded that the case was “unusual” while presenting her case to the Cambridge magistrates, while lead magistrate Mary Duff agreed that the offence wasn’t like driving on the motorway – but stressed that she had to ban Prescott.
Christine is now banned from driving for three years, and was also ordered to pay a fine of £165.
uk.news
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