A drink driver crashed into the back of a queueing car during the morning rush hour in a city centre.
Elone Hervonovich said he hadn't had any alcohol since the night before when the collision happened on a slip road off the A167 Central Motorway, in Newcastle, earlier this month. The 33-year-old told officers he'd been temporarily blinded by a low sun but a breath test proved he was over the limit, a court was told.
The rail company manager also said he'd stopped drinking at 11.30pm the previous night - just nine hours before the collision near Claremont Road. Now, Hervonovich, of Central Lofts, in Newcastle, has been given a 12-month disqualification after he pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol at the city's magistrates' court.
