A woman who drove while more than five times over the new drink-drive limit “came close to tragedy” after crashing in Broughty Ferry.
Lana Karen Boyle, 34, of Forthill Road, drove in the dark with no lights on and demolished a wall and badly damaged a bus stop and two other cars after losing control of her vehicle.
Sheriff George Way said something had to be done to bring home the fact that the incident almost had disastrous consequences.
He said: “She will be disqualified because this is her second offence and her reading was so shocking.
“She has to have it brought home to her how close she came to a real tragedy here.”
The court heard previously how Boyle had got into her car around 8.30pm on Saturday December 20 and accelerated off “harshly”, but quickly struck a kerb, which caused her to mount the pavement.
The impact left a hole in the stone wall and destroyed the bus stop before the car careered into another vehicle, causing debris to fly across the road and strike a third car.
Boyle admitted that on December 20, at Forthill Road, she drove with excess alcohol (122 mics).
She also admitted driving carelessly on the same date and place, without lights, accelerated harshly, caused it to collide with the kerb and lost control of the car whereby it collided with a garden wall, a bus stop pole and another car, causing damage to both cars, the garden wall and the pole and debris from the collisions struck and damaged another moving vehicle being driven by a man.
Her plea of not guilty to wilfully exposing a four-year-old child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health by conveying the child as a passenger in the car, was accepted by the crown.
The offence took place on December 20 and due to an administrative error she was charged under the old drink-drive limit rather than the new one, which would have placed her more than five times over.
Sheriff Way reduced a five-year driving ban to 40 months because of Boyle’s guilty plea and ordered her to complete a community payback order with 18 months supervision and a 60-day curfew requiring Boyle to be in her home between 7pm and 7am.
Boyle must also engage with alcohol counselling as a condition of her sentence.