Dad was more than three-and-a-half times drink drive limit when he set off to pick up daughter from school

A HUBBERTS BRIDGE dad set off to collect his daughter from school when he was more than three-and-a-half times the drink drive limit, a court heard.
Man was more than three and a half times drink drive limitMan was more than three and a half times drink drive limit
Man was more than three and a half times drink drive limit

Duncan Thompson, 62, of Station Road, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.

Prosecuting, Paul Wood said that at 5pm on October 28, Thompson was involved in a single vehicle collision in Station Road, Hubberts Bridge, in his Toyota Verso after he failed to negotiate a bend and collided with a tree.

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Mr Wood said a member of the public had removed the car keys to prevent Thompson driving off and when police arrived he provided a positive breath test, with a reading of 124 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath, the legal limit being 35.

He told the officers he had drunk half a bottle of wine at home and had then got a call to go and pick up his daughter from school.

The court was told he claimed the collision was deliberate as he had been trying to avoid a lorry.

Mitigating, Roger Lowther said it had been Thompson's wedding anniversary and he and his wife had given each other a bottle of wine and he had drunk half of his when he got home from work, but had also been drinking on and off all through the day.

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He said Thompson took the 'inexplicable decision' to collect his daughter himself and could offer no reason why he did. Thompson had 'taken it on himself not to drive since this happened'.

He said: “This has been a real scare for him and he has referred himself to Addaction.”

The magistrates banned him from driving for two and a half years but offered him the drink drivers' rehabilitation course which will reduce the period of the ban by 30 weeks.

He was also ordered to observe a six month alcohol treatment order and to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work for the community and to pay £175 in costs and charges.