A motorist from Cresselly has been handed a driving ban after pleading guilty to a drink-drive charge in court after admitting she’d had one too many ‘G ’n’ Ts’ on an outing to her local pub.
Fifty-one-year-old Trudi Fisher appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday to plead guilty to driving her Peugoet 308 car after exceeding the prescribed limit of alcohol.
Prosecutor Abul Hussain told the court that police officers patrolling the Cresswell Quay area in their vehicle shortly before 10.30 pm on Sunday, September 9, had cause to stop the defendant in her car as her brake light was not working properly.
When pulled over, Mrs. Fisher, who was travelling with her husband in the passenger seat, was asked if she had been drinking by officers and told them she’d had two gin and tonics.
A roadside breathalyser test proved positive and she was arrested and taken to custody, where she gave a reading of 45 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
Defence solicitor Anthony O’Connell said that his client had made a ‘hugely regrettable’ decision to drive.
“She has recently moved to the area and had spent all day doing up the house. She went to the pub with her partner and would normally have a lift home from one of the people at the establishment, but they were already giving somebody else a lift.
“Mrs. Fisher drove a short distance thinking that she would be ok to drive.
“She had just set up a new ‘Dog Day Care’ business, and needs her licence for this. She lives seven miles from the nearest shop and losing her licence will be hugely detrimental to her life,” he added.
Magistrates disqualified the defendant from driving for 12 months and fined her £93 for the offence.
Mrs. Fisher was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.