Drunk road roller driver hit with £400 fine

A BOOZED-UP driver has been fined £400 after he was caught drink-driving on a road roller.

James Brown, 51, was flagged down by officers searching for a man after reports a van had crashed into a wall.

But, when Brown moved the road roller to the side of the road to park up as directed, he barged into barriers and cones on a public path. Concerned, officers tested Brown who was over the limit at the side of the road and blew official readings of 43. The legal limit for alcohol is 22. After a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Brown, from Thornliebank, was convicted of driving the road roller culpably and recklessly on Kennishead Road and Corselet Road last March 23, to the danger of the public.

He was fined £400 by sheriff Aisha Anwar, although wasn’t banned from driving.

PC Lorna Lamont said her and colleague PC Paul Love went in search of the driver of a van in relation to an earlier inquiry, on the morning of the incident.

She described seeing Brown driving the road roller towards her and her colleague. He matched the description of a man believed to have been driving a van that they were looking for and asked him to pull over.

Procurator fiscal depute Louise MacNeill asked: “You say that he was driving a road roller, is there anything else of note that you recall?”

She said: “When he was pulling the road roller in to the side to park it he hit a number of road barriers.”