A MAN was caught nearly five times the drink drive limit in charge of vehicle at a Toby Carvery car park.
In Newport, Sean Michael Kyle, 41, gave a reading of 163 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath on July 17, the city’s magistrates’ court heard.
He pleaded guilty to being in charge of a Vauxhall Mokka after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his breath exceeded the prescribed limit.
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The legal limit for driving is 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The court heard if the defendant had driven he would have posed “a considerable risk to other road users”.
Kyle, of Greenmeadow Road, Northfield, Birmingham, was jailed for six weeks, suspended for 12 months, and banned from driving for 18 months.
He was fined £300 and ordered to pay a £128 surcharge.
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