Significant damage was caused to the front of Alarna Rosamund’s vehicle and the airbags inflated.
The defendant, 24, of La Rocquette, Castel, admitted driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit when she appeared in the Magistrate’s Court.
The court was told how no other vehicle had been involved. Police attended shortly before 1am and the defendant failed a roadside breath test before being taken to hospital to be checked over.
Following her release from hospital she was taken to the Police Station where, at 4.14am, she provided a sample which showed that there were 69mcg of alcohol in 100 millilitres of his breath when the legal limit is 39. She exercised her right to silence in interview.
Defending, Advocate Samuel Steel said his client had not sought to minimise the seriousness of her offending. This had been a serious but isolated lapse by a young woman who was of previous good character.
Judge Gary Perry said people did not seem to be learning the lesson that driving motor vehicles with high alcohol readings was a real danger.
‘In effect, you were an unguided missile and it was only by chance that nobody else had been there,’ he said.
He ordered the defendant to perform 90 hours of community service and suspended her driving licence for two and half years.