Boozy driver crashed into traffic lights (From Worcester News)

Boozy driver crashed into traffic lights

2:40am Saturday 16th May 2009 in News

A 20-YEAR-OLD man had drunk two bottles of powerful lager before driving into a traffic light.

Andrew Addis’s stricken car was spotted by a passing police patrol car on the A4440 roundabout at the junction with Whittington Road, Worcester, in the early hours of the morning.

Officers breathalysed Addis who was unsteady on his feet and smelt of booze according to Marie Watton, prosecuting.

“He initially told officers he’d had one pint of Stella at a friend’s house,” she added.

“He thought he might be close to the limit when he got in his car.”

Addis, of Evesham Road, Church Lench, Evesham, later told police he’d drink two “oversized” bottles of Stella before crashing in damp conditions on Tuesday, April 28.

Addis admitted drink driving at Worcester Magistrates Court.

Barry Newton, in mitigation, told the court the alcohol in his client’s blood had been reducing throughout the time he was stopped and questioned, recording a reading of 56 mcg of alcohol in 100 ml of breath. The limit is 35 mcg.

Magistrates banned him for a year and fined him £145. He was ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.