Kelty drink-driver banned

A drink-driver who was seen swerving across the road with no headlights on has been banned.

Craig Daly, 43, of Cocklaw Street, Kelty, admitted driving at almost four times the limit on November 26 when he appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. His reading was 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 22 microgrammes.

He also admitted driving carelessly on the B917 between Cowdenbeath and Kelty, then in Oakfield Street and Cocklaw Street, Kelty, in hours of darkness with no headlights on, swerving across the carriageway and hitting the kerb.

Depute fiscal Bruce McCrossan said: “At 6.50pm on a Sunday evening witnesses were travelling in a car... behind a Vauxhall Corsa being driven by the accused. They saw he had no lights on, was crossing over the centre of the road and he struck the nearside kerb.

“The accused came to a stop at a junction. The witnesses approached the driver at this point. They could smell alcohol from him.”

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said his client had “sought solace in alcohol” after recent problems in his personal life.

Sheriff Derek Reekie told Daly: “This was extremely dangerous. You couldn’t drive in a straight line, had no headlights and the alcohol reading is a high one.”

He banned Daly for 18 months and fined him £800.