An ambulance driver is set to be sacked after she admitted crashing off the road while she was under the influence of cocaine.
Jennifer Hobson told Dundee Sheriff Court she could not remember the incident after turning to drugs in the wake of several suicides of people close to her.
The court was told that Hobson would lose her job as an ambulance driver as a result of the mandatory 12-month disqualification imposed upon her.
Hobson's Ford Focus left the road near Ladybank in Fife and police were called because it came to rest on an embankment and was blocking the road.
Fiscal depute Larissa Milligan told the court: "At 9.20pm on Friday 19 march a witness was driving north of the A92 into Ladybank.
"The road was blocked in both directions as a silver Ford Focus had gone off the road and into an embankment. Police were contacted.
"The accused was observed to be the sole occupant. She was in the driver's seat and provided her name. She was uninjured.
"Paramedics arrived and at 9.45pm police arrived at the scene. The accused was in an ambulance and her speech was observed to be slurred.
"She was unsteady on her feet. Five minutes later she left the vehicle, assisted by police, to retrieve her belongings from the car.
"There was a black shoulder bag which was searched and found to contain a plastic bag with white powder in it and another bag with tablets.
"The police constable took hold of the accused's hand requesting her to surrender the bag, but she refused to do that. Another officer retrieved the bag."
A roadside breath test was carried out, which proved negative for alcohol, but analysis of her saliva showed a positive reading for cocaine in her system.
Hobson, 39, admitted then failing to give a specimen of blood at hospital in Kirkcaldy to ascertain her ability to drive on 19 March this year.
She told the court she was an ambulance driver and expected to lose her job as a direct result of the conviction and inevitable disqualification.
She said: "I'm single. I will lose my job. I am very, very remorseful this happened. I came out of a bad relationship which featured domestic abuse."
Hobson told the court that in a short space of time her ex-partner, a work colleague, and a number of other people she knew had taken their own lives.
She said the stress of Covid had added to her problems, but when she was asked about the cocaine she said: "I don't remember taking it. I can't remember anything."
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael banned Hobson from driving for a year and fined her £200.
