A 40-year-old mother of two drank two full bottles of wine the day before her Mercedes collided with a five-year-old child.
Magistrates today banned Lisa Ward, from Manchester, from driving for 12 months and fined her £319 for the offence.
The incident occurred on Lower Broughton Road in Salford.
The court heard Ms Ward was driving on the road on May 12 when a child darted out from behind an unattended van and into the path of her Mercedes.
According to police, the child sustained 'serious' injuries , including a fractured eye socket and broken fibula and tibia bones.
Ms Ward, who works on a zero-hours contract as a carer, pleaded guilty to driving car her above the legal drink-drive limit. She has one previous conviction for drink-driving from 2006.
"That previous conviction is relevant" magistrates said.
"I do not necessarily accept that you only had been drinking on day one but I am giving you full credit for the early guilty plea."
After producing a positive roadside sample, Ms Ward was taken to Pendleton Police Station where she undertook a breathalyser test.
She gave a reading of 48 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, above the English legal limit of 35 micrograms.
Defending Ms Ward, Mr Birtwistle said: "Police are satisfied that no fault at all is attributable to the defendant's driving. She was not speeding.
"It is significant that the young person ran into the side of her vehicle leaving her no way to avoid the regrettable collision.
"She has not driven since."
The chair accepted that Ms Ward could not have avoided the collision, but rejected her application to undertake a drink-driving rehabilitation course due to her previous conviction.
Ms Ward, of Guildford Grove, Middleton, was fined £200, ordered to pay £85 in costs, and handed a £34 victim surcharge alongside being disqualified from driving for 12 months.
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