'Unsteady' Shrewsbury van driver gets 20-month ban for drink driving
A Shropshire police officer who had stopped to fill up his patrol car with fuel spotted another motorist looking unsteady on his feet as he walked across the service station forecourt, a court heard.
Prosecuting at Telford Magistrates Court, Mrs Katie Price said the officer had stopped at the Battlefield service station in Shrewsbury on March 28 when he saw the defendant Shaun Leddington getting into a van.
The officer then followed Leddington as he drove onto Whitchurch Road and into the car park of McDonald's where he circled around twice before finally stopping the van and getting out.
Mrs Price said that when the officer asked Leddington to provide a road side breath test he had replied: "I'm going to fail it."
The court was told that the defendant blew a reading of 156 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath, more than four times the drink drive limit of 35 microgrammes.
