Teh One Who Knocks
06-06-2012, 05:00 PM
By Louie Smith - The Mirror
A woman driver who was a record five-and-a-half times the alcohol limit was spared jail.
Tracey Chambers, 35, downed at least two bottles of wine before getting behind the wheel.
She was arrested when a policeman saw her crash into a kerb and she told the officer she left her young child home alone so she could drive to buy more booze.
A breath test showed 188 micrograms per 100ml of breath – 5.4 times the legal limit of 35mcg.
It is thought to be the highest recorded reading for a British woman.
Kim Dalton, prosecuting, said: “She couldn’t remember exactly how much she’d drunk, possibly two bottles of wine.”
Chambers, of Upton, Northants, crashed in the early hours of April 13 and blew 147mcg in a second test later but refused a third.
She admitted failing to provide a specimen and Northampton magistrates gave her a 12-month probation supervision order with alcohol treatment and a three-year road ban.
Neil Clark, defending, said she turned to alcohol after losing her job.
She said later: “I will never be able to forgive myself but I left my child alone for no more than five minutes.”
The previous female record was 179mcg
A woman driver who was a record five-and-a-half times the alcohol limit was spared jail.
Tracey Chambers, 35, downed at least two bottles of wine before getting behind the wheel.
She was arrested when a policeman saw her crash into a kerb and she told the officer she left her young child home alone so she could drive to buy more booze.
A breath test showed 188 micrograms per 100ml of breath – 5.4 times the legal limit of 35mcg.
It is thought to be the highest recorded reading for a British woman.
Kim Dalton, prosecuting, said: “She couldn’t remember exactly how much she’d drunk, possibly two bottles of wine.”
Chambers, of Upton, Northants, crashed in the early hours of April 13 and blew 147mcg in a second test later but refused a third.
She admitted failing to provide a specimen and Northampton magistrates gave her a 12-month probation supervision order with alcohol treatment and a three-year road ban.
Neil Clark, defending, said she turned to alcohol after losing her job.
She said later: “I will never be able to forgive myself but I left my child alone for no more than five minutes.”
The previous female record was 179mcg