Woman crashed car after drinking at bingo

A WOMAN who got behind the wheel after drinking while playing bingo has been put off the road.

MARGARET MCINTYRE, 56, denied driving while almost double the legal drink limit.

But she was found guilty after trial at Peterhead Sheriff Court. She was banned from driving for a year and fined £350.

The court heard McIntyre, whose address was given in court papers as Hillview, Parkview, Hatton, crashed her car after leaving a friend’s house at 1.15am on April 23.

McIntyre had been to play bingo and had then gone on to a friend’s house at 10pm where she played dominoes until 1am.

She admitted drinking two glasses of wine at the bingo but claimed she did not drink anything else until after the crash, when she had two “stiff drinks”.

MATTHEW FORSYTH, 21, was fined £1,000 and banned from driving for two years after he was caught over the legal drink-drive limit near Oldmeldrum.

Forsyth, whose address was given as 12 Pitmunie Place, Kemnay, admitted the offence, which took place in 2006, when he appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.

Depute fiscal Elaine Lynch said: “A female witness was a passenger in a car heading north when she noticed a car lying in a ditch. She approached Forsyth, who was identified as the driver by one of his passengers, and spoke to him.

“She noticed that he was holding a can of beer and contacted the police.”

Forsyth also admitted failing to produce insurance documents and test certificates after a crash on the Aberdeen to Inverness road near Blackburn.

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