A man has been banned from the road after writing off his car in a crash while he was almost four times the legal alcohol limit.
Matthew Heggie ended a boozy evening at his friend’s by making the “extremely foolish decision” to drive home.
While en route in the early hours of the morning, the 23-year-old was involved in a crash on Great Western Road in Aberdeen and wrote off his vehicle.
Fiscal depute Lewis Devoy told Aberdeen Sheriff Court: “A little before 4am on November 27 2021, police were actioned to attend at the locus in relation to a call about a minor road traffic collision.
Intention was to ‘take taxi home’
“Officers attended and the accused voluntarily identified himself immediately to the officers, informing them he was involved in the collision.”
Heggie then failed a breath test was arrested.
He pled guilty to driving with 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 22 microgrammes.
Defence agent Ian Woodward-Nutt said his client, a graduate engineer, appeared with no previous convictions and had been driving for six years.
‘Extremely foolish and naive’
He added: “His car was written off and he has not driven since this, nearly nine months ago.
“On the evening in question, he’d gone to a friend’s house.
“The intention had been to socialise and consume alcohol and leave his car there, take a taxi home and return for it the next day.
“Unfortunately, in the early hours and when under the influence of alcohol, he made the extremely foolish decision to go back on that arrangement and he decided to drive home and, as a result of that, now gains a conviction for this matter.”
Sheriff Joseph Platt told Heggie, of Dubford Rise, Bridge of Don, what he did was “extremely foolish and naive”.
He fined him £470 and banned him from driving for a year.
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