A coked-up driver blacked out and crashed his lorry on a notorious Fife road.
Allen Kerr, 68, was driving a tipper lorry when he crashed on the A92.
He told a court he thought he was fit to drive despite being more than 15 times the limit for the class a drug.
Kerr, who represented himself, said the the incident happened “when I blacked out”.
He added: “I found out later I had low sats (saturation) for oxygen.”
Told by Sheriff Williamson the cocaine in his system “wouldn’t have helped”, Kerr replied: “I felt OK to drive.”
Collision
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard Kerr’s vehicle, an eight-wheeled tipper truck owned by a Fife firm, was damaged after leaving the road.
Fiscal depute Jill Currie said Kerr was travelling southbound at the time of the incident.
She said: At 10.30am police were contacted by a member of the public stating a lorry had left the A92 and had a damaged windscreen.
“There had been a collision but the accused was uninjured.
“The accused was spoken to at the locus and identified himself as the driver.”
She said he failed a roadside test and later analysis showed the high reading for benzoylecgonine – a substance produced when the body metabolises cocaine.
Sentence deferred
Sheriff Williamson warned Kerr the charge was a “serious matter” and urged him to get a solicitor for his sentencing hearing.
Kerr, of Beatty Crescent, Kirkcaldy admitted driving a lorry on the A92 on May 24 last year with excess benzoylecgonine in his system (764mics/ 50).
Sentence was deferred until next month for reports and Kerr was banned from the roads in the interim.
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