A 56-year-old drug driver, caught on the M5, has been banned from getting behind the wheel and fined by magistrates.
Richard Starkey, of Upper Sapey near Martley, admitted the offence when he appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court on Tuesday, (September 19).
Starkey pleaded guilty to one charge of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit.
The court heard Starkey was driving an Audi on the M5 Northbound Junction 4, Frankley Services on June 5 this year.
Tthe proportion of a controlled drug a Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol - a cannabis breakdown - in his system was 3.2 micrograms per litre of blood - above the legal limit of 2mg.
Magistrates disqualified Starkey for a year and fined him £120.
He was also told to pay £135 costs and £48 victim surcharge.
Starkey was ordered to pay £303, the full amount, by October 17.
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