Telford lorry driver banned for 14 months after failing breath test by five points
A lorry driver from Telford has been banned from driving for 14 months after failing a breath test when he was five points over the limit.
Colin Anthony Pickering, aged 58, of Barleywood Close, Donnington, pleaded guilty to driving a blue Vauxhall Insignia on Donnington Way with 40 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the limit is 35.
Prosecutor Sara Beddow told Telford Magistrates Court on Wednesday that police stopped Pickering on September 29 after seeing him swerve across the road and almost hit a kerb. Officers arrested him and took him for breath tests.
