Drink-driver was more than three times over the limit
A man who crashed his car into a wall when more than three-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit has been banned from the roads.Carlos Simas, 29, of Warwick, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at Magistrates’ Court.Prosecutor Kirsty-Ann Kiellor said police were called to a road accident on Middle Road, just west of Paget stop lights, at 3.55am on July 29, which was Cup Match Friday.Simas was at the wheel of his Peugeot vehicle, which had “caused considerable damage to a wall of a private residence,” according to Ms Kiellor.The keys were still in the ignition and Simas was uninjured. Police smelled alcohol on his breath and arrested him. When he was breath-tested, the lowest reading was 294 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.Simas told the court: “I’m very sorry for my actions. I should have caught a taxi. I will never do it again.”Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner banned him from the roads for a year and ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine.It’s not the first time Simas has been in trouble for driving offences; in 2008, he was fined a record $63,000 for driving his unlicensed and uninsured car through electronic vehicle recognition detectors 36 times.