A teenage driver who thought he was safe to drive after four pints of beer crashed into a roundabout. Leicestershire Police were on patrol in Rugby Road, Hinckley, when they came across 19-year-old Dylan Lindsay and his crashed Mini.
Leicester Magistrates' Court heard on Monday that Lindsay, who had never been in trouble with the police before, took a roadside breath test expecting to pass it. But he failed and was arrested.
He was taken to a police station where he gave a reading of 59 microgrammes of alcohol per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.
The incident happened on Saturday, June 16 at about 1.40am after Lindsay had been out drinking with friends. Representing himself in court, the teenager said: "That night I was out with a couple of friends and I had a few drinks.
"I didn't think that if I did get pulled over I would blow over the limit. I made a mistake in not understanding the law properly. I had four pints over four-and-a-half hours.
"I thought it would be okay in the time period. My silly thinking was you can have a drink and an hour later you can have another drink.
"I'm very sorry for what I did. I know what I did was wrong."
Lindsay, of Alma Court, Nuneaton, was banned from driving and ordered to pay a £336 fine, £85 court costs and a £154 victim surcharge. The chair of the bench, Jane Hanson, said: "That was a pretty stupid thing to do."
