Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Latest Court Victories
Place: Stockport Magistrates Court Offence: Driving with Excess Alcohol – guilty plea Defence: Mitigation Carl Millar from Messrs Millars Solicitors was instructed by Mr A in respect of an allegation of driving with excess alcohol. His reading in breath was at 78µg...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Latest Court Victories
Place: Wimbledon Magistrates Court, London Offence: Driving with Excess Alcohol Defence: Mitigation Carl Millar was instructed by Mr S who appeared before Wimbledon Magistrates Court in relation to an allegation of driving with excess alcohol. His reading in breath...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drunk in Charge, Latest Court Victories
Place: Newport Magistrates Court Offence: Driving with Excess Alcohol, reduced to being Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle Defence: No evidence of driving Carl Millar was instructed by Mr W who was charged with driving with excess alcohol. Mr W was charged with...
Caught Drink Driving, Failure to Provide, Latest Court Victories
Place: Horsham Magistrates Court Offence: Failing to Provide a Specimen of Breath for Analysis Defence: Reasonable Excuse for not providing a specimen of breath, namely panic attacks and asthma and technical defence Messrs Millars Solicitors trading as Keep My Driving...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drunk in Charge, General
How long after drinking can I drive?A simple enough question but not quite so straightforward to answer.Alcohol slows down the body’s reactions, which makes it unsafe to drive and puts you (the driver), passengers and the general public at risk. People under the...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drunk in Charge, Latest Court Victories
Place: Barnstaple Magistrates Court Offence: Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle Defence: Mitigation Millars Solicitors were instructed by Mr H who pleaded guilty to the offence of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle. Mr H faced a potential disqualification period...
Caught Drink Driving, Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Drunk in Charge, Latest Court Victories
Place: Poole Magistrates Court Offence: Driving with Excess Alcohol / Drink Driving Defence: Mitigation Carl Millar was instructed by Mr M in relation to an allegation of driving with excess alcohol. Mr M had a relatively high reading in alcohol, of 82µg in 100ml of...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drunk in Charge, Latest Court Victories
Latest Victory Place:Staines Magistrates Court Offence:Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle Defence:No likelihood of driving whilst over the prescribed legal limit in alcohol Carl Millar was instructed by Mr F who was charged with being drunk in charge of a motor...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Latest Court Victories
Place: Preston Magistrates Court, PR1 2QT Offence: Driving with excess alcohol Defence: Reduced to drunk in charge Carl Millar represent Mr I before Preston Magistrates Court. Mr I was initially charged with driving with excess alcohol and he therefore faced a...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
A Forklift truck driver banned was caught for a 4th time drink driving has been banned from the road for 40 months. The incident began when 27 year old Gary Prescott was seen driving erratically in the early hours of a Sunday morning. Prescott was stopped by the...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drug Driving
A pilot scheme is being rolled out that will educate drink drivers on the dangers of drug driving. The drug driving education scheme is now being added to the drink drivers rehabilitation course as part of a new initiative. The drink drivers rehabilitation course...
Caught Drink Driving, Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Drug Driving
A 20 year old drink driver, whose driving caused the death of his 17 year old passenger, has been handed a 6 year jail sentence. Reports have detailed that the drink driver, 20 year old Tyrone Quinn, had a number of passengers in his BMW when driving through Newcastle...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
It has been reported that woman suffered a panic attack whilst being arrested for drink driving after she drove home from a party. The 36 year old driver, Emma Jones, pleaded guilty to drink driving when she appeared at North Devon Magistrates’ Court. The police came...
Caught Drink Driving
Reports in The Sun newspaper have told of an unprecedented road rage incident between a cabbie and a driving instructor. The incident captured on a passerby’s mobile phone shows a person thought to be a mini cab driver, get out of his car and approach a black Ford...
Caught Drink Driving, Drug Driving
Crackdown on Drink & Drug Driving Sussex police have a year round drink and drug driving campaign called Operation Dragonfly. It operates the campaign with the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership and targets offenders in a bid to prevent accidents and a make the roads...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
A babysitter who locked a child in the house as he rode a moped over the drink driving limit has been handed down a suspended prison sentence. The drink driving rider, Andrzej Huczuk, made a full confession to the police about the child after they saw him riding a...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drink Driving In The News
The ex England test cricketer, Alan Mullally has been convicted of his 4th drink driving offence following a car accident in Australia. The court heard that Mullally was 5 times over he legal drink driving limit for Australia. This was the 4th drink driving offence...
Caught Drink Driving, Drug Driving
A new Freedom of Information request by the insurance website confused.com has revealed a massive surge in drug driving cases. The figures have revealed that in 2015 some 1,686 motorists were charged with the offence of drug driving. This new report details the most...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
Following a freedom on information request some of the worst drink driving hotspots in the country have been linked to high Eastern European populations. The information has shown that Boston, Wisbech and Peterborough are in the top 10 worst areas for drink driving....
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
8 Years For Drink Driving Killer A drink driver who crashed his car at 160mph and killed a young mother has been jailed for 8 years. The driver, Martin Grant was breathalysed at the scene of the crash and found to be twice over the legal drink driving limit. The...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving, Drink Driving In The News
Deep Regret of a Man Who Drank Then Drove A drink driver who consumed 20 pints, took cocaine and then drove before being stopped by the police has told a court about his “deep regret” over the incident. The 39 year old, Andrew Hammond had been driving...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
Reports are in from the US that the Navy SEAL who reportedly shot Osama Bin Laden has been arrested and charged with drink driving. Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, was find asleep at the wheel of a car in the early hours of the morning. When police attended on him it...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving
A 29 year old man has been banned from driving for over 3 years following his second drink driving offence. Stephen Morgan was stopped by the police in the early hours of the morning. He was breathalysed by the attending officers and was found to have 53mg of alcohol...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving In The News
An award winning Scottish nurse has been suspended from practice because she did not disclose 2 drink driving offences to her employers. The nurse in question, Virginia Murchison had been caught drink driving twice with the offences being 6 days apart. On the first...
Caught Drink Driving
It has been reported that a 48 year old man has been arrested after firefighters were called to a blazing car just yards away from a petrol station. Fire crews attend at the forecourt of the Breckland Garage on Lynn Road in Weeton after an electrical fault had caused...
Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving In The News
West Midlands Police have reported that seven police officers have been sacked from their jobs over the past five years for drink driving. In fact it has been revealed that there were a further two police officers stopped for drink driving with one resigning and...
Careless Driving, Caught Drink Driving, Drink Driving In The News
A man who collided with a young woman who was crossing the road has been jailed for 5 and a half years, after admitting he had been drink driving. Jake Mitchell, 25 admitted that he had been drinking when he got behind the wheel of a car shortly before knocking down...
