News / Banned, tagged and unpaid work for drink driving
A LERWICK man caught driving while three and a half times the limit for alcohol shortly after getting his licence back following a drink driving ban is to be tagged for three months.
Scott McCulloch, of Flat 3, 2 Mill Lane, has also been banned from driving for five years and ordered to carry out 240 hours unpaid work for the community.
At Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday, the 37 year old admitted drink driving around north Lerwick on 24 April, as well as failing to stop and report an accident after bumping into a car on Mill Lane on 10 April and after colliding with a fence on Lerwick’s Gremista industrial estate the following day.
The court heard that McCulloch had made good the damage to the car at his own expense and had only hit the fence after swerving to avoid a pallet on the road.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said these incidents had been “very much a wake up call” for his client, who had approached the local alcohol advice service for help.
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