A 33-year-old man was today fined and taken off the roads for driving while more than twice the legal alcohol limit.

Kiransinh Rajput pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to driving while over the legal alcohol limit.

The court heard that the Sandys resident crashed his motorcycle into the back of a parked car on Dockyard Terrace at about 1am on June 15.

He attempted to drive off but members of the public intervened and police were called.

Officers noticed Rajput staggering, his speech was slurred and his eyes were glazed. He also had cuts to his arms, knees and face.

He was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station, where he was found to have 175 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80mg per 100ml of blood.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo fined Rajput — a chef at the Anchor restaurant in Dockyard — $1,200 and banned him from driving for 18 months.

Also in court, Jonathan Edness, from Sandys, was fined $1,000 and taken off the roads for 18 months after he admitted dangerous driving.

The court heard that a police officer saw him run a red light at the junction of Court Street and Church Street on November 28 last year.

He had to brake to avoid hitting a pedestrian crossing the street.

Edness, 28, was also fined $800 after he pleaded guilty to a separate charge of careless driving.

He was driving on Crow Lane on April 23 last year when he cut across a police vehicle.

In a separate case, 51-year-old Kenneth Williams, of Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty to careless driving on North Shore Road on November 9 last year after changing his plea from not guilty.

The court heard that Williams’ motorcycle collided with a car while he attempted to overtake three vehicles.

In the same court on June 28, he admitted, as part of the same incident, to driving while impaired.

He was fined $2,500 and banned from driving for 18 months.

He changed his plea on the careless driving charge this morning.

Williams’ sister told the court that the defendant spent four months in hospital and had no memory of the accident.

Mr Tokunbo said the penalties imposed for the impaired driving offence would be “sufficient” and only recorded a conviction for careless driving.

Also in court, David Hill opted to spend 20 days in prison after being fined $200 for speeding at 59km/h in October last year.

The 30-year-old said: “I’m not paying all that. I’ll do the time, please.”

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