Man’scar veeredover centralline

Police activated the blue flashing light on their patrol car after spotting a driver veering across the central line as he drove through Perth in broad daylight.

But 39-year-old Piotr Maukulski, of Thriepland Way, seemed oblivious to their presence - and failed to stop.

Eventually they overtook him and directed him into a side road, Perth Sheriff Court was told.

When they spoke to him he was “smelling heavily of alcohol, his eyes were glazed and his speech was slurred.”

He failed a roadside breath test - and was later found to have been driving with more than four times the legal alcohol limit.

His car was ordered to be seized and an interim driving ban was imposed when he appeared in the dock.

He will discover how long he is off the road - and whether his car is to be forfeited permanently - when he returns for sentence on August 24.

He admitted driving between Perth’s Charlotte Street and Dunkeld Road on July 30 with 91 microgrammes of alcohol on his breath. The legal limit is 22 microgrammes. The court heard that officers had received a call from concerned drivers that his car was being driven erratically on the A94 Coupar Angus-Perth road shortly before 6pm.

Police traced the vehicle shortly afterwards and as they followed it down Charlotte Street and into Dunkeld Road it “veered over the central line markings,” according to the depute fiscal.

The fiscal asked that the car be seized meantime pending a final decision on whether it should be impounded.

Sheriff Derek Reekie ordered a social work report as well as a Restriction of Liberty Order assessment on the accused.