‘10 SHOTS’ L-DRIVER PASSES TWO B-TESTS
Luck runs out with drugs
A LEARNER driver who admitted he had “just done a 10-shot challenge” passed two breath tests.
Nathan Wood, 22, was so smashed his “legs couldn’t support his own weight”.
But to the amazement of police officers he passed a breath test after being pulled over for driving in the dark with no lights on.
He gave a reading of only 21 mcgs of alcohol – the legal limit is 35.
Baffled officers were so convinced he was drunk they thought their machine was faulty.
They took Wood to the police station and ordered him to take another test.
But he passed that as well despite admitting to necking five black and five white sambucas.
However his luck ran out when he was found to be over the drug-drive limit.
He had a cocktail of drugs including cocaine, diazepam, and temazepam in his system.
Wood, from Ashington in Northumberland, admitted in court he could not remember anything about the incident as he was “so drunk”.
He added he could not believe he had passed the breath tests.
Wood pleaded guilty to driving while unfit through drugs and driving without a licence or insurance.
Judge Bernard Begley warned him at South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court that he “could have killed someone” because he was so “heavily intoxicated”.
But he spared him jail. Judge Begley said: “The only thing that draws me back from sending you to prison is you have not been in trouble before and you have pleaded guilty.
“You have come within a hair’s breadth of that happening.
“You could have killed someone – that’s the reality of the situation.”
Wood was given a 30-month driving ban and a 12-month community order. He was also ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work and pay a fine of £150.