A vintage vehicle seller has been banned from the roads after he crashed into another car while over the booze limit.
William Coates had been in a day out with friends in Newcastle city centre, which involved a meal and alcohol, when he got behind the wheel of his Toyota and stuck another vehicle on the Military Road, near Vallum Farm, in Northumberland. A court heard that police were called and they found the 20-year-old sat in the driver's seat before he confessed to having had a drink.
Coates, who owns his own business buying and selling vintage cars and their parts, was arrested after failing a roadside breath test and later gave a reading of 91mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood when the legal limit is just 80. Coates, of St Helen's Way, in Corbridge, has now been banned from the roads for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol at Newcastle Magistrates' Court.
