A DRINK driver was fined £730 and has been banned from driving for three years.

Police say that Jason Tilling, of Normandy Road, Tidworth, was nearly three times over the legal limit when he was breathalysed, after he was stopped late at night by officers.

Heard at Salisbury Magistrates Court on February 12, at 12.45am on November 28 last year the driving of a Vauxhall Insignia gave officers reason to stop the vehicle on Normandy Road.

The driver, Tilling, failed a roadside breathalyser and was arrested and taken to Melksham Police Station. Here he provided a reading nearly three times the legal limit.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the alcohol limit for drivers is 80 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood / 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath.

The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while over the prescribed alcohol limit.

He was disqualified from driving for a total of 36 months.

This will be reduced by 274 days if Tilling completes a driving course as instructed by the court.

PC Webster of the Amesbury community policing team said: "I hope the length of this ban acts as a deterrent to anyone who thinks about getting behind the wheel of a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

“Being caught behind the wheel of a vehicle over the drink drive limit can have a detrimental impact on your life, as this driver has discovered.

“Not to mention the risk you are putting other road users at. It is fortunate he was spotted by officers when he was as the result of his actions could have been far more serious.”

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