A drink driver ploughed into a barrier on a busy road then slipped and fell on his back as he tried to flee the scene.
Peter Graham, who has a past conviction for driving with excess alcohol from 2019, was witnessed by officers travelling at speed and flouting a red light in his Vauxhall Astra before the collision on Callerton Lane, in Newcastle. A court heard that the 32-year-old had been on his way back from viewing a wedding venue with his fiancée when he crashed his car then left her in the passenger seat as he unsuccessfully tried to run away.
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