A noisy exhaust landed a drink driver in the dock after it attracted the attention of police.
Allan Taylor had been travelling along St James' Boulevard, in Newcastle City Centre, having earlier been out for a friend's birthday. Officers waiting at traffic noticed the 32-year-old's VW Golf because of it's loud exhaust and speedy approach to a red lights, a court was told.
They followed the vehicle until pulling it over on a road in Gateshead. Taylor, of Whitehill, in Leam Lane, Gateshead, failed a roadside breath test and later gave a reading of 51mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath when the legal limit is just 35mcg.
