Telford drink-driver had been to a funeral
A woman who was driving a sick friend home after a funeral was almost twice the drink-drive limit, magistrates have heard.
Danielle Hoyle, 29, of Fairview, Ketley Bank, had 66 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when she was stopped by police on January 10. The legal limit is 35.
She was fined £110 and ordered to pay £85 costs and £20 victim surcharge. She was banned from driving for 14 months, but was given the option of reducing that by three months by completing a drink-driver awareness course. Mr Mike Phillips, prosecuting, said police stopped Hoyle after she took an unusually large arc to turn a corner into Wombridge Road in Oakengates.
Mr Steven Meredith, defending, said she had been at a funeral and had a couple of drinks. She received a call from a friend, who was diabetic, asking to be picked up.
Her insulin was in Hoyle's car and Hoyle was taking her home when she was stopped.
Mr Meredith said Hoyle had never been in trouble before. He said: "She showed a very high level of remorse and was ashamed to be in the police station." She felt completely fine to drive."
