A drink-driver was more than six times the legal limit when he drove through a hedge in a Dunfermline front garden.
Russell McNaughton admitted driving a car with excess alcohol (144 mics/ 22) in the city’s Drum Road on September 1 this year.
Procurator fiscal depute Azrah Yousaf told Dunfermline Sheriff Court police received a call around midnight that a vehicle had crashed into a car at an address in Drum Road.
The fiscal depute said the vehicle had been driven through a hedge in the front garden of a property and McNaughton was in the driver seat.
He was removed from the car and police reported him smelling of alcohol.
After failing a roadside breath test he was taken to the police station.
Ms Yousaf said, after being charged with the offence McNaughton replied with comments similar to: “What have I done; what the f*** am I doing; I am pi**ed”.
Early guilty plea
Defence lawyer Amy Harley said McNaughton fully accepts his behaviour and understands what he did posed the potential to cause serious harm to others.
The solicitor said her client has experienced mental health difficulties and leans on alcohol in difficult situations which, in this case, involved a close relative being unwell.
The court also heard McNaughton, of Drummond Place in Blackridge, West Lothian, has an analogous previous conviction.
Sheriff David Hall acknowledged McNaughton had pled guilty to the offence at the earliest opportunity.
The sheriff said: “This is an extremely high count and you do have an analogous previous conviction, though over 10 years ago”.
Sheriff Hall banned McNaughton from driving for 32 months.
He also sentenced him to an offender supervision order for one year and told him to carry out 140 hours of unpaid work, as part of a community payback order.
