Drink-drive menace blinded by bonnet

A motorist whose view was totally obscured by his bonnet flipping up and smashed into several vehicles during a “drunken rampage” was nearly seven times over the legal limit.

David Macdonald hit a number of oncoming cars as he drove down the wrong side of the road until he eventually stopped and emerged with a bottle of wine in his hand.

Macdonald was jailed for eight months last week and banned from driving for four years as a sheriff in Perth told him he was lucky not to have killed anyone.

Macdonald, from, Kirriemuir, Angus, admitted driving a VW Golf dangerously on the A85 Crieff to Perth road on January 4.

Sheriff William Wood said: “This conduct can only be described as a drunken rampage with you behind the wheel of a car while almost seven times in excess of the legal limit.

“There were several collisions when the car was not in a fit state to drive at all because the first collision had caused the bonnet to rise.”

Macdonald shot out of a junction at high speed and crashed into the side of a van before leaving at speed.

Several other motorists had to swerve out of Macdonald’s way as he continued to drive when the broken bonnet completely obscured his view.