A driver who was 16 times the drug-driving limit crashed her car into a wall and rolled it onto its side.
Diane Watson’s white Renault Megane overturned on the A944 Aberdeen to Kingswells road near Dobbies Garden Centre.
Police officers found the 41-year-old sitting on the grass verge next to her car with “constricted pupils” and in an “agitated state”, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
Tests later confirmed she had 800mcg of Benzoylecgonine, the metabolite of cocaine, in one litre of blood, the legal limit being 50.
Fiscal depute Sean Ambrose said: “At approximately 8.50pm on March 18 last year police received a call regarding a one-vehicle road traffic collision.
“Officers attended and found the accused’s vehicle on its side having collided with a stone wall on the side of the carriageway.
“She was sitting on the grass verge next to the vehicle and they noted her pupils were constricted and she was agitated.
“She identified herself as the driver to the police.”
Subsequent tests showed she was negative for alcohol but positive for having taken cocaine.
Was 16 times the limit
She admitted one drug-driving charge and a not guilty plea to another charge of driving with cocaine in her system was accepted by the Crown.
Defence agent John McLeod said his client had a “serious drug problem” but she was taking “active steps to address it”.
Sheriff William Summers told Watson: “This is a serious offence because of the danger that driving in that condition causes not only for yourself but for other road users.”
He also noted she had no analogous convictions but stated that reading was “quite high”.
Watson was handed a two-year roads ban and ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work in the next 2 months.
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