A drug-driver who was more than eight-times the legal limit was found unconscious behind his car with the engine still running.
Cameron Munro had taken so much ketamine that he passed out behind the wheel as his car came to rest on a residential fence.
The 22-year-old offshore worker could not be roused by the concerned homeowner and only regained consciousness moments before police and ambulance crews came to his aid.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told Munro has been addicted to the “fairly substantial tranquillisers” at the time.
Fiscal depute Rebecca Thomson said a witness found Munro after his car came to a stop against a fence on Provost Rust Drive at 5.10pm on October 31 last year.
Couldn’t be roused by helper
“The engine was still running though the vehicle had stopped,” the fiscal said. “The accused was unresponsive and the witness tried to rouse him but could not.
“He called 999 and thereafter managed to rouse the accused before police and an ambulance attended and found the accused still seated in the driver’s side of the vehicle.”
Police formed the opinion he was intoxicated and a blood test at Kittybrewster Police station later found 160 microgrammes of ketamine in his blood sample, the legal limit being 20.
Munro, of Woodlands Drive, Ellon, admitted a drug-driving charge.
His defence agent Shane Campbell stressed his client had been driving since age 17 and held a clean licence.
“At this time and for the months leading up to it, Mr Munro was battling an addiction to ketamine – a fairly substantial tranquilliser.”
‘I have to take a serious view of this matter’
He added that since this offence his client’s “life has changed dramatically” since he sought assistance to address his drug abuse and secured a job offshore.
Sheriff Andrew Miller said the circumstances of his offending were “concerning” and that it was a “very high reading”.
He told Munro it was to his credit that he has taken steps to end his drug addiction and that he’d been returning negative drug tests while offshore.
“On the other hand I have to take a serious view of this matter,” he added. “Controlled drugs affect different people in different ways and proceed through the body at different rates.
“But you apparently became unresponsive whilst driving your vehicle because of the impact of the drugs you had taken, which indicates that the quantity or drugs in your systems impacted your ability to drive at the time.”
He banned Munro from the road for 20 months and fined him £640.
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