Enniskillen Magistrates Court
A CHEEKY motorist who beeped his horn at police before hitting the kerb and ending up with his car in the middle of the road has admitted drink driving.
Twenty-six year old Mark Montgomer, also known as Mark Galbraith from Ballaghmore Heights, Coles Hill was fined £150 and disqualified from driving for 15 months.
Around 1.40am on April 27 police were on the Shore Road, Enniskillen, when they saw a car approaching along Ann Street.
As the Fiesta passed police it sounded its horn and then police watched as the car hit the kerb and bounced back into the middle of the road.
Officers got a strong smell of alcohol from the defendant’s breath and he had to be helped when he got out of the car.
An evidential reading of 89mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath – 54 in excess of the legal limit.
“So he beeped his horn at police then crashed the car?” asked District Judge Liam McNally.
Barry Lynam said his client had been at a birthday party and had also been taking medication and the that his client had taken a reaction to the cocktail of alcohol and medication.
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