The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A Spalding man who used his car on a journey that he could have walked in five minutes, has been banned from driving for driving with excess alcohol.
Jack Skipworth, 21, of Nursery Way, who admitted the offence on July 23, was seen to cross the central road line while driving his car and was stopped by police in Woolram Wygate.
After a positive breath test, he was arrested and provided a breath sample of 64 microgrammes of alcohol, the legal limit being 35.
It was said he was ‘very remorseful’ and that he had been at a friend’s who was less than a five minutes walk and a one minute drive from his home.
Banning him from driving for 16 months, Judge Peter Veits, sitting at Boston, said it had been ‘a strange decision to drive’ when he could have walked.
“People in drink make strange decisions,” he said.
Skipworth was offered the drink drivers’ rehabilitation course, which will reduce the period of the ban by four months, and he was fined £400 and ordered to pay a total of £245 in court costs and charges.
