Shropshire Star

Farming student, 21, who got drunk and crashed Ford Fiesta at Shropshire university campus gets road ban

A student who got drunk and crashed his car at university has been banned from the road.

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Thomas Bett, aged 21, crashed his Ford Fiesta at the entrance of Harper Adams University in Newport at around 11.30pm last month on December 10.

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Telford Magistrates Court was told that Bett, an agricultural student in his final year at the university was the only person in the car and no-one was hurt in the collision.

He was arrested and was found to have 65 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath - more than the legal limit in England and Wales of 35mcg.