Impaired drivers banned

Three drunk drivers were each fined $1,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for 12 months in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

A fan who left the Bermuda Music Festival too drunk to drive was warned to take the ferry home next year.

Rashaan Emory, 28, of Sandys pleaded guilty to impaired driving on Middle Road, Southampton on October 9.

Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrossen said Police spotted Emory crossing over the centre line at 4.35 a.m. and when he was pulled over, his eyes were red and glazed.

“I've been to the music festival and I've had a couple,” Emory told Police.

His lowest breathalyser reading was 212 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

The legal limit was 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

“You had a good time at the festival but you should have taken the ferry home,” Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo told him. “Don't worry, you should be back on the road in time for the next festival.”

Emory was also fined $100 for not having a valid driver's licence on the same date.

A Devonshire man involved in a road traffic collision near the 24-hour Esso gas station was also banned from driving.

Rohan Clarke, 33, pleaded guilty to driving while impaired on Par-La-Ville Road, Pembroke on July 23.

Mrs. Vaucrossen said Clarke smelled strongly of intoxicants and was unsteady on his feet after the accident.

“I had three Rum and Cokes and a Guinness,” Clarke told Police.

Clarke's lowest breathalyser reading was 139 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

And a Warwick man caught napping on his cycle was banned for a year even though he was not driving.

Edmond Trott, 36, of Warwick pleaded guilty to having care and control of a motorcycle while his ability to drive was impaired by alcohol, on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish on July 15.

Police found Trott sitting on his cycle. When they approached him he started crying uncontrollably.

His lowest breathalyser reading was 195 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Trott was ordered to pay $1,000 by November 10 or spend 100 days in prison.