Would-be driver spared ban after breath test fail in Mansfield
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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Hide AdSarah Neale, mitigating, said: “She couldn’t blow hard enough or long enough. She didn’t blatantly refuse.”
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.