A drink-driving e-scooter rider admitted to police he was "steaming" and had 100 percent driven with alcohol, magistrates were told. Harry Norton, a steel metal fabricator from Church Drive, Carrington, pleaded guilty to driving a Wind e-scooter when he was over the limit.
The offence happened in Scotland Road, Basford, on January 22 at 2.22am, when paramedics came to the aid of 22-year-old Norton who had come off his scooter and suffered facial injuries. He was treated in the back of an ambulance.
When police arrived, he said: "I have 100% driven the scooter with alcohol. Yeah, I'm steaming. I've only had four bottles of 'Rona' (Corona lager)." A blood sample showed he had 170 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, over the limit of 80, Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard on Thursday, April 14.
