A peckish drink driver broke her nose when she ploughed into a hospital wall while en-route to get a takeaway.
Stacey McKane got behind the wheel of a Kia after she and her partner decided to travel into Newcastle City Centre in order to get food in the early hours of the morning. However, the 34-year-old mum lost control of her vehicle after hitting a curb and she crashed into a boundary wall of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, on Victoria Road, a court heard.
The police were called but decided not to take a roadside breath test as McKane appeared to have suffered a "nasty" facial injury and she was taken just metres away to the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. Whilst there, she consented to a blood sample being taken, which proved she was over the booze limit. She'd also suffered a broken nose.
