Long ban for drunk driver

A DRIVER found slumped over his steering wheel after colliding with a post was more than four times over the drink-drive limit, a court has been told.

When seen after the accident Nicholas Wildbore could remember nothing about it. He recorded 159 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 35.

Yesterday his solicitor, Philip Morris, told Prestatyn magistrates it was a wonder how his client had managed to drive from his home in Dobcross to North Wales.

Wildbore (41), of Ladcastle Road, pleaded guilty to drink-driving and failing to stop after an accident and was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months. He was banned from driving for five years, having had a similar conviction in 2004.

Mr Morris said that Wildbore admitted being alcohol-dependent and was perhaps “genetically disposed” to such a condition because his father had a similar problem.

“A reading like that, which is off the scale, is indicative of someone who has an illness,” said Mr Morris.