A drug driver has been banned from the road and hit with a bill for more than £400 after crashing into a tree on a rural road in west Wales.
Police went to the scene of a one-vehicle crash in Pembrokeshire on Thursday, April 25.
The vehicle - a white van - was lying on its side in the middle of a country road just off the A478 between the villages of Crymych and Glandwr, around ten miles south of Cardigan.
The van had collided with a tree at the side of the road, and Ceredigion’s Road Policing Unit tweeted: “Thankfully it was only a tree that was damaged and not another motorist or pedestrian”.
The driver - Henri Nelson, of Upper Fant Road, Maidstone - appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (August 20).
Nelson, aged 20 at the time of the offence, was charged with driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
He pleaded guilty to the offence and was disqualified from driving for 12 months.
He was also fined £300 and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £30.
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