Drink-driver tried to flee following Worthing crash
She had been out at a nightclub prior to the collision
A drink-driver has been banned from the roads for 18 months after crashing her car into a lamp-post in Worthing, then fleeing from the scene.
Roxanne Benn had been drinking with her friends at a nightclub in the town prior to the crash in South Farm Road in the early hours of July 16th.
The 24-year-old from Tarring crashed her black BMW through a lamppost and though a fence at a business premises before decamping from the vehicle.
But officers from Sussex Police's Roads Policing Unit were able to trace her to her home address.
She denied being the driver but was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and was taken outside the address where she was abusive to the officers attending.
Later, in custody, Benn tested for 65 microgrammes (mcg) of alcohol per 100 millilitres (ml) of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.
She admitted she was the driver, and was charged with drink-driving, failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic accident, and failing to report a road traffic accident.
By her own admission she revealed she had consumed two shots of Jagermeister and three vodka lemonades on her night out.
She claimed she had “panicked” when she crashed the vehicle.
At Worthing Magistrates’ Court on August 2nd she admitted the charges and was disqualified from driving for 18 months.
The court ordered Benn, a trades painter, of Lincett Avenue, Tarring, to complete 80 hours of unpaid work and to pay ÂŁ85 court costs and a ÂŁ114 victim surcharge.
RPU officer PC Ana Wellfare said:
“Benn was clearly in no fit state to drive her vehicle, and put her own safety as well as the safety of her passengers and other road users at great risk. She is lucky that no one was seriously injured.
“Alcohol seriously impairs a person’s ability to drive safely, and there are no excuses for drink-driving.
“This case demonstrates our determination to catch offenders, we are pleased that another drink-driver has been taken off our roads to prevent causing danger to herself and anyone else.”