A boozy driver had a nine-year-old girl in his car when he went into the back of a stationary vehicle at traffic lights. When police arrived at the scene in Hartley Road, Radford, they noticed Karol Piotr Sierzputowski, 36, of Colchester Road, Strelley, smelt strongly of alcohol and he blew 168 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, over the limit of 35.
But a second evidental test was required at Nottingham Custody Suite, where the defendant was taken on Wednesday, December 28. He apologised but refused to provide a second specimen of breath, Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard on Friday (December 30).
Sierzputowski pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen and driving a car whilst unfit through drink. Andy Conboy, prosecuting, told the court more about the defendant's interview and how 'he accepted things could have been much worse than they were, with possible injury caused to the child or anyone else on the road'.
