A man who drove through the centre of Cowdenbeath after taking heroin was apprehended thanks to a quick-thinking driving instructor.
Erik Arthur, 42, of Sang Road, Kirkcaldy, admitted that on June 9 on High Street, Cowdenbeath, he drove a car while unfit to do so through drink or drugs.
Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said that at around 10.15am a driving instructor, accompanied in his vehicle by a student, saw another vehicle swerving over the roadway and mounting the grass verge, eventually coming to a halt on High Street five minutes later.
The driver went into a shop and the instructor went to speak to him, the court heard, and then flagged down a passing police car after suspecting the man was under the influence. When officers asked him to get out of his car, Arthur was “unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred and his eyes were glazed”.
He gave a negative breath specimen for alcohol but a urine sample later showed he had taken heroin along with other drugs.
Defence solicitor Danielle Varela said her client had been without his medication for 40 hours before being released from custody. Driving home, he suffered a seizure, was involved in an accident and the car was written off.
Ms Varela said her client had gone fishing to “calm his nerves” and had taken heroin at around 1am, and had been driving home when stopped. Arthur will be sentenced next month.