Road ban for motorist caught with drugs in his system on busy A5 in Shrewsbury
A motorist who was caught with drugs in his system on the busy A5 at Shrewsbury has been banned from the road.
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Matthew Thompson, aged 46, drove a Volkswagen Golf between the Emstrey and Preston islands on May 19 this year.
A drugs test found he had 2.4 micrograms of delta-9-THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, per litre of blood. The legal limit, taking into account the possibility of accidental exposure to the class B drug, is 2mcg per litre.
Thompson, of Westbury, near Shrewsbury, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates Court to driving with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit.
Magistrates banned him from driving for 12 months and fined £120.
Thompson was also ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs.
