An estate agent praised for dobbing herself in to police for drink-driving has been fined £1,000 and banned from getting behind the wheel.
Lauren Monaghan, 20, crashed her 2019 Vauxhall Adam Griffin into a parked vehicle in the early hours of the morning, just three doors from her home.
Her motor, which sells for between £8,000 and £13,000, stopped next to a tree.
The honest estate agent then called the cops to admit she had crashed her car while being under the influence of alcohol.
Officers arrived and she gave a sample of breath that proved on analysis to contain 99 microgrammes of alcohol in every 100 millilitres — four and half times over the legal limit of 22.
Lauren lives with her parents in Aitken Crescent, Redding, Falkirk, and pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
Solicitor Simon Hutchison, defending, said: "It's clear this was a really stupid one-off on her part. She's very, very upset and annoyed at her behaviour and she shows a great deal of remorse.
"It is her first offence, there's nothing else outstanding, and I'm pretty sure we'll never see her again in the criminal court.
"She has just signed a contract to become self-employed in a local estate agency business. Her work will be commission-based, selling houses.
"She accepts that her main difficulty will be that now she won't have a licence, she'll have to spend a great deal of money on taxis and things.
"That will impact on the profits she makes."
Imposing the £1,000 fine and disqualifying her from driving for 16 months, Sheriff Christopher Shead told Lauren he'd had a "very detailed, very helpful" criminal justice social work report on her.
He said: "The court's very sorry to see you appearing in these circumstances. As you recognise yourself, it's a serious offence.
"Mr Hutchison is no doubt correct to submit that the court's unlikely to see you offending in the future.
"There won't be many people who've gone to the trouble of reporting themselves to the police in these circumstances.
"That is a very significant feature of this case. It reflects well on you, if I may respectfully say so."
