Ban for 9am drink driver from Peterborough
He was nearly twice the legal limit
A man who was seen drinking alcohol sat in his car at 9am in a Peterborough car park has been banned from driving.
52 year old Petras Dovydaitis was reported to police on 3 March by a member of the public who saw him in a grey Mercedes in the car park in Hill Close, Eastfield.
He was stopped by police at 9.10am in nearby Eastfield Road after driving away.
Dovydaitis, of Langley, Bretton, Peterborough, provided a breath test of 69 microgrammes, almost double the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath.
At Peterborough Magistrates’ Court Dovydaitis pleaded guilty to drink driving and was banned for one year and four months and handed a £333 fine.
PC Robert Foot, who investigated, said: “Dovydaitis was almost double the legal drink drive limit at nine in the morning.
“It is never acceptable to get behind the wheel after drinking heavily, and he is lucky he didn’t cause a crash or harm anyone, but it could have been a very different story.”
Cambridgeshire Constabulary operates a dedicated, confidential hotline – 0800 032 0845 – available 24/7, which allows the reporting of anyone believed to be driving under the influence.