On 10/01/2024 05:01 pm, Simon Mason wrote:
A POWYS man has been fined nearly £700 and banned from the roads for a year after admitting drink driving.
Ashley James Jones had admitted the charge in November but his case had been adjourned so he could argue special reasons as to why he was driving.
Jones, 26, was driving a Volkswagen Golf on an unclassified road near his home in Llanddewi, near Llandrindod Wells, on October 19, 2023.
He had 50 micrograms of alcohol in his breath – the legal limit is 35 micrograms.
At Llandrindod Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, January 3, Jones, of Cwmquarry, Llanddewi, Jones was fined £400 for the offence. He was also told to pay a £160 surcharge and £135 costs.
Magistrates banned him from driving for 12 months but he can reduce this by three months if he successfully completes a drink driving rehabilitation course.
https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/24028850.powys-drink-driver-fined-loses-licence-year/
It comes as a genuine surprise that the disqualification might
eventually be reduced to nine months. I was under the impression that a
minimum of twelve months was mandatory for a breathalyser-detected offence.
Perhaps it will result from any "special reasons" adduced by the driver.
But who (if anyone of any importance) was riding the chav-bike?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)