A 51-year-old Dundee woman caught drink-driving has been banned for 12 months and fined £300.
Mildred Elizabeth Wilson, of the city’s Balerno Street, appeared before Sheriff Lindsay Wood at Arbroath Sheriff Court and represented herself in the dock.
She previously admitted driving a vehicle after consuming excess alcohol (95 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood) in South Street, Monifieth, on February 24. The legal limit is 80 milligrammes.
Depute fiscal Jill Drummond said Wilson’s vehicle was spotted by police moving across the road.
She was travelling in the car with a male and Ms Drummond said Wilson smelled strongly of alcohol.
She failed a breath test before a sample of blood was also taken for analysis.
Speaking from the dock, Wilson told the sheriff that a man in the pub had given her friend “cheek” and when they left he had been headbutted by the man in the car park.
Wilson said she got in the car and “drove in panic to get away”.
She apologised for her actions. Imposing the sentence, the sheriff offered a reduction of a third if Wilson completes a drink drive rehabilitation course.
