yesterday.

Arne M. Schwartz, 30, of South Road, Paget, was fined $400 and taken off the road for a year.

Insp. Peter Duffy, prosecuting, said that on October 8 at 2.45 a.m. Police saw Schwartz ride his motorscooter through a stop sign from Stowe Hill onto The Lane, and then swerve into a hedge.

An alcoanalyser test revealed 129 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.