Police stopped a drink-driver as she travelled to get a loaf of bread from Asda in the early hours of the morning.
Chloe White was over the limit when she decided to get behind the wheel of her Mini Cooper and drive to her local supermarket in Ashington at 2am on July 17 last year.
The mum-of-one had been out socialising and drinking Desperado when she returned home and realised she needed some bread, a court heard.
However, the 25-year-old was stopped on-route by police and arrested.
Due to a fault with the mechanical breath testing machine at the police station, a sample of White's blood was taken, which gave a reading of 130 milligrammes of alcohol in 100ml of blood, the legal limit being 80.
Now, White, of Northumberland Close, Ashington, has been banned from the roads for 17 months after she admitted driving with excess alcohol at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court.
Prosecutor, James Long, said it was around 2am that patrolling police officers noticed White driving with only her side lights on through the Ashington area.
He added: "It was a very dark road the point where the officers see her vehicle. That's initially what attracts their attention.
"The vehicle then fails to indicate as it turns right. It's swerving left to right on the carriageway.
"Police speak to the defendant and she said she had driven to Asda to collect some bread. She accepts she had a drink earlier."
John Monkhouse, defending, told the court that White had been on her first night out since the birth of her 11-month-old son.
"She's had two bottles of Desperado," he said.
"That's without driving. She's went home, had a sleep and, in order not to take her child to Asda in the following morning, she goes to get a loaf of bread.
"The child is still with her mother at this point."
District Judge Bernard Begledy fined White £125 and ordered her to pay £85 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.
