Teacher caught drink-driving

A DRUNK teacher got behind the wheel of her car after rowing with her husband, a court heard.

And Christine Vickers was more than three and-a-half times over the legal limit when she jumped in her BMW without pausing to put on her shoes.

Vickers, an assistant head of year at Westborough High School, Dewsbury, was banned from driving for three years when she appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court.

The 42-year-old, of Spinners Way, Lower Hopton, Mirfield, pleaded guilty to driving while over the prescribed limit.

Prosecutor, Andy Wills, said police were called to a crash on Heckmondwike Road in Dewsbury On November 20.

Vickers was speaking with another driver and her speech was slurred. She was arrested after failing a roadside breath test and further tests showed she had 127 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. This was over three and-a-half times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.

Vickers said she’d had drinks at home with her family and then argued with her husband after they had left.

She ran out of the house and got in the car because she wasn’t thinking straight – despite her friend offering to come and pick her up.

Vickers told police: “I’m sorry, I hope I don’t lose my job.’’

Magistrates heard that the school was supporting Vicars but they banned her from driving for three years, ordered her to do 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £85 costs with an £85 victim surcharge.