A Perth man who crashed a car into a wall in the city last month while he was five times the drink drive limit has been disqualified from driving for over two years.
Perth Sheriff Court was told this week Bruce Joseph Awburn steered a Ford vehicle into a wall at Stuart Avenue on February 11 and was then seen by witnesses “staggering” from the wreck shortly afterwards.
Fiscal depute Stuart Hamilton told the court police later tested Awburn and found he had 113 microgrammes of alcohol on 100 millilitres of his breath.
The legal limit is 22 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath.
Awburn (45), of Stuart Avenue, Perth, pled guilty to driving a vehicle after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion on his breath was more than five times the legal limit.
Sheriff John Rafferty said of the test results before sentencing Awburn: “This is a very high reading.”
He decided to disqualify Awburn from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 26 months and made him the subject of a supervision order by social workers for a period of nine months.
Sheriff Rafferty also imposed a restriction of liberty order on Awburn under which he is not allowed to leave his home address between 7pm and 5am for a period of 66 days.
