Dalgety Bay van driver banned for crashing on A9 while over drink limit

A drink-driver who overturned his van on the A9 in Perthshire has been banned from the road for a year.

Witnesses saw Robert Stewart’s vehicle drifting across the carriageway to mount an embankment before rolling over to fall back down on to the road.

The 52-year-old, from Dalgety Bay, was trapped before being released by the emergency services.

He was transferred to hospital for tests in connection with a possible heart problem so it was almost three hours before an alcohol test could be carried out, revealing that Stewart was over the legal limit.

Perth Sheriff Court was told the accused had drunk two whiskies ”some time prior to the accident” and had believed that he was fit to drive.

Stewart, of Forth View, admitted that on January 24, on the A9 Inverness to Perth road, he drove a van with excess alcohol (85mgs the limit is 80mgs).

Sheriff Robert McCreadie said: ”We simply do not know how high your reading could have been at the time of the accident. It is clear to me that you would have been considerably over the limit at the time.”

As well as being banned Stewart was fined £300.