Saturday, April 14, 2007

Drunk mobility scooter driver jailed for 6mph ride

Day-trippers had to jump out of the way after a drink-driver took a mobility scooter – top speed 6mph – and drove it along a packed seaside promenade.

Police who arrested Marcus Driver found he was more than twice the legal alcohol limit for driving.

Driver, 23, was yesterday given a four-month prison sentence and banned from driving for 12 months by magistrates in Blandford, Dorset.

Driver, of Slough, Berkshire, who has 80 convictions dating back to when he was 14 and has never held a driving licence, took the scooter on Weymouth esplanade in Dorset in June 2005.

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