Drink driver nearly three times legal limit crashed into road sweeper
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 17 Oct, 12:32 · Archive
Samuel Wilson, 32, was almost three times over the legal alcohol limit when he crashed into a road sweeper vehicle on the A590.
Samuel Wilson, 32, pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to driving his Ford Transit van with alcohol above the legal limit when he appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates Court on 14 October. He crashed into a road sweeper vehicle on the A590 at Walney Road on 4 August. Prosecutor Lee Dacre said Wilson was arrested after providing a breathalyser reading at the roadside of 120 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, dropping to 104 micrograms at Barrow police station. This was almost three times the legal limit. Wilson's solicitor Karen Templeton told magistrates that the defendant had never been in trouble before and had shown remorse for his actions. She said he was suffering from depression and had been using alcohol to ease it, but was now on medication for anxiety and depression and had not drunk for several weeks. Magistrates ordered Wilson to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and 120 days of an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag.
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- Drink driver nearly three times over limit crashed into road sweeper on A590A DRINK driver was almost three times over the legal limit when he was at fault for causing a collision with a road sweeper vehicle on the A590, a court heard.NW Evening Mail · 17 Oct, 06:00
- Drink driver nearly three times over limit crashed into road sweeper on A590A DRINK driver was almost three times over the legal limit when he was at fault for causing a collision with a road sweeper vehicle on the A590, a court heard.Westmorland Gazette · 17 Oct, 06:00
In this story: Samuel Wilson · South Cumbria Magistrates Court · A590 · Walney Road · Barrow · Salford
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