Repeat drink-driver who smashed into bus handed lengthy road ban

A repeat drink-driver who ploughed into a bus has been banned from the roads for two years and eight months.

Dibu John, 37, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where he admitted driving while more than three times the legal alcohol limit.

The court was told he collided with a bus before driving his mangled car a mile back to his home.

It was John’s second drink-driving conviction in six months after he was caught behind the wheel while on his way to pick up his daughter from school in May last year.

Fiscal depute Georgia Laird told the court that the driver of a First bus was on the Lang Stracht at the junction with North Anderson Drive when he saw John’s red Nissan Juke appear from the opposite direction and fail to give way.

She said: “It resulted in the vehicle colliding with the front offside of the bus.”

Police identified John’s vehicle on CCTV and found he was driving on a provisional licence.

A test revealed John had 67 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 22.

The court heard he had also been arrested while going to pick his daughter up on May 17 last year, where a sample showed he had 222mg of alcohol in 100ml of urine. The legal limit is 67.

John, of Eday Square, pled guilty to two charges of driving while under the influence of alcohol, one charge of driving without due care or attention, and a further charge of driving without insurance.

Sheriff Rory Bannerman told John he had shown a “remarkable lack of interest” in the safety of other road users.

He disqualified John for 32 months and made him subject to the community payback order with supervision for 16 months.

Dibu John and his crumpled Nissan Juke.