A WOMAN who crashed her car when she was more than two-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit has been banned from driving for two years.

Eileen Toland-Brown, of Kirk Smeaton, pleaded guilty to driving while over the limit when she appeared at Selby Magistrates’ Court.

The court heard Toland-Brown, 58, had 94 mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath after she crashed her Volkswagen Golf close to her home on May 22. The limit is 35mg.

Mitigating, Lisi Ke said Toland-Brown had suffered a number of bereavements in recent years, and was comforting her daughter the night before the accident, who had woken her at about 10pm. When she could not get back to sleep, she drank half a bottle of wine and took some pain killers, but awoke several hours later and felt “fit to drive”, and did not feel there would be any impairment.

She was adjusting the air conditioning in her vehicle when she crashed, less than 100 yards from her home.

Toland-Brown was ordered to pay a £300 fine, £80 prosecution costs, and a £15 victim surcharge, and disqualified from driving for two years.