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An impaired driver with the car licence plate ?Smile? didn?t have much to grin about when he was hit with a $1,000 fine in Magistrates? Court.Tristan Fraser-Smith, 18, of Pokiok Estates, Smith?s pleaded guilty to impaired driving on June 4 and was also banned from driving for one year.

Nothing to smile about

An impaired driver with the car licence plate ?Smile? didn?t have much to grin about when he was hit with a $1,000 fine in Magistrates? Court.

Tristan Fraser-Smith, 18, of Pokiok Estates, Smith?s pleaded guilty to impaired driving on June 4 and was also banned from driving for one year.

The court heard he was driving the vehicle with the ?Smile? personalised licence plate when he had a single vehicle road collision on South Road in Smith?s. His blood alcohol level was found to be 165 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Two banned

A Warwick man who was nearly three times over the limit was yesterday fined $1,000 and banned from driving for one year.

Police arrested Melroy De?Souze in Smith?s Parishon the second day of Cup Match after they saw his car swerve about the road.

De?Souze, 33 of Tea Room Hill, admitted the offence. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo was told his blood alcohol level was 226 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Meanwhile, Greggory Meszoly, 36 of Shawn Acres Lane, Southampton received the same punishment when he was found to have 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood ? the bare minimum.

He was arrested after being involved in a single car accident on July 3 on Lighthouse Road, Southampton.

Meszoly pleaded not guilty to impaired driving but guilty to to his blood alcohol level.