Would-be driver spared ban after breath test fail in Mansfield

A Bilsthorpe woman due to start a delivery job was spared a driving ban after she failed to complete a breath test for drink driving in Mansfield, a court has heard.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Sep 2016, 15:30 BST
Updated 4th Oct 2016, 13:54 BST
Mansfield Magistrates Court.Mansfield Magistrates Court.
Mansfield Magistrates Court.

Emma Louise Crowder, 33, of the Crescent, Bilsthorpe, admitted failing to provide a specimen when she appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court on Thursday.

The court heard she was stopped on suspicion of drink driving on June 9, on Harrop White Road, in Mansfield.

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Sarah Neale, mitigating, said: “She couldn’t blow hard enough or long enough. She didn’t blatantly refuse.”

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She said Crowder was due to start a delivery driving job next Monday and keeping her licence was ‘vitally important to her employment.’

The court heard she was given a two-year ban for drink driving in 2009.

Magistrates put ten points on her licence, but stopped short of banning her.

She was fined £185 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a victim surcharge of £30.