A WOMAN who collided with “several” parked cars in Wellington while more than double the legal limit for alcohol has been banned from driving for three years.
Jessica Cooper-Hogan, 22, drove a black Land Rover Discovery into the parked vehicles on Wellesley Park at around 11.20pm on Sunday, March 3.
Police charged her with driving a motor vehicle while over the legal alcohol limit, driving without insurance and driving without due care and attention.
Cooper-Hogan, whose address was given as c/o Oaklea, Hemyock, pleaded guilty to all three offences at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Monday (March 25).
Court documents say she drove after “consuming so much alcohol” that the proportion of it in her breath measured 76 micrograms in 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit in England is 35 micrograms.
For drink-driving, she was given an “obligatory” 36-month driving ban, fined £120 and was told to pay £85 in court costs and a £48 surcharge to fund victim services.
She received no further penalty for driving while uninsured and without due care.
Cooper-Hogan will pay her £253 court bill in fortnightly instalments from April 8.
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