Slumped at wheel after drink session

Paramedics were called to a Perth labourer found slumped in the driver’s seat of his car.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that a forestry worker spotted boozed-up Trevor Adams on the unclassified Methven-Glenalmond road shortly before 2pm.

But he failed to wake him and neither could police who were contacted, Perth Sheriff Court was told.

They summoned an ambulance and personnel were able to stir him from his slumbers after a heavy drinking session the previous night.

Officers detected the smell of drink from him and tests showed he was almost four times over the legal alcohol limit.

Adams, of Dunsinane Drive, was fined £600 and banned for nine months after he admitted being in charge of the car on January 22 last year with 236 milligrammes of alcohol in his urine. The limit is 67.

Depute fiscal Carol Whyte said the nearside tyre on the accused’s car had come off the rim, possibly as a result of being driven too close to the nearside grass verge.

Solicitor Paul Ralph said the accused had fallen out with his girlfriend the previous evening and spent the night drinking with a friend.

He went to his car to get more alcohol but fell asleep.

Sheriff William Wood said Adams was “fortunate” he was only facing a charge of being in charge of the vehicle.

Adams will pay the penalty at £80 a month.