A court heard it was "nothing short of sheer luck" that a serious accident wasn't caused when a mum, who was four times over the drink drive limit, drove her seven-year-old from Merseyside to a Welsh beach. Sadie Smith, of Centurion Drive in Meols, was caught on dashcam footage driving so erratically she ploughed over a roundabout and into a grass verge.
The 47-year-old cried as her family sat beside her while Wrexham Magistrates' Court was shown footage of her almost colliding with a road sign on the A548 in Flintshire in March, with her son, aged seven, in the car with her.
Prosecutor Helen Tench said Smith had been been drinking the night before and had had some alcohol in the hours before she set off to find a North Wales beach. A concerned member of the public called police at about midday on March 19 when they saw a Saab Index being driven "erratically" in Flintshire.
