DRINK driver Bernadette Dempsey was nearly three times the limit when she slammed into a parked vehicle shunting it about15 feet along the road.
Fortunately, magistrates at Bury were told, there was no one in the vehicle, although Dempsey needed hospital treatment.
The court was told that, when tested, the 39-year-old, from Tintern Avenue, Whitefield, was found to have 103 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is just 35. In court, she pleaded guilty to drink driving, driving without due care and attention, failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident.
The court heard Miss Grant had been taking medication for depression at the time of the incident.
Dempsey was disqualified from driving for 30 months, given 150 hours of community punishment and ordered to pay £55 court costs.
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