Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Bernice Quinn, aged 57, from Ballynadrone Meadows, Magheralin, appeared before Craigavon Magistrates Court charged with motoring offences. She pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol, failing to stop at a damage-only accident, failing to remain and failing to report the accident.
Advertisement Advertisement The court heard that at around lunchtime on November 26 last year, police received a report of a road traffic collision in Magheralin. "Police were told the female was displaying symptoms of intoxication,” said the prosecutor, adding that the vehicle had crashed into a lamp post. Police located parts of the vehicle at the scene and went to the defendant’s address.
“She was in the driveway, stationary in the car. Both airbags had been deployed. There was substantial damage to the front of the vehicle,” said the prosecutor.
“There was also a strong smell of alcohol emanating from Ms Quinn. She failed a preliminary test,” said the prosecutor, adding that police had retrieved a bumper and the registration plate laying next to the damaged lamp post. Advertisement Advertisement The lower evidential reading of breath was 73 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit for alcohol in a breath test in NI is 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. During an interview with police the defendant sai.
