Joshua Collin, 23, of Les Petites Fontaines, St Peter Port, admitted the drink-drive offence.
The Magistrate’s Court was told that the incident occurred at about 9.30pm when the defendant, who had driven up the Rohais, collided with a granite wall at the junction with Rocquettes Road and the vehicle ended up on its roof, trapping both the driver and his passenger in the vehicle.
Collin told police officers that it had been his ‘own stupid fault’. He said he had just left the Guernsey Rugby Club where he said he had had two pints to drink.
He failed a roadside breath test and an evidential one at the Police Station identified 108mcg of alcohol per 100 millilitres of his breath when the legal limit is 35. He had no previous convictions.
Defending, Advocate Samuel Steel said his client accepted that he should have stuck to his original plan of getting a bus home. He had been contrite with police and shown great remorse.
He was an active contributor to the community by coaching rugby.
Judge Gary Perry said the defendant accepted making a terrible decision. But it was not just terrible, it was ‘unfathomable and reckless’ and the consequences of it could have been huge. The fact there had been a collision was an aggravation.
Collin was ordered to perform 120 hours of community service as a direct alternative to two months in prison and had his licence suspended for four years.
