A new driver was found to be shoeless and over the drink-drive limit by police after she crashed into a taxi.
Dental nurse, Kelsey Leskiw, was driving the wrong way down a one-way street in Blackpool town centre when the accident happened.
A man stood in the middle of the road in front of her Citroen C1 signalling to her to stop but a police officer saw Leskiw accelerate towards the man before braking suddenly.
Leskiw, 20, of Wynwood Avenue, North Shore, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
She was disqualified from driving for 18 months and fined £240 with £85 costs plus £30 victims’ surcharge by magistrates.
Prosecutor, Pam Smith, said patrolling police saw a man standing in the middle of Birley Street with his arms out signalling Leskiw to stop on March 28 at 3.30am.
A taxi she had collided with when she drove the wrong way along Corporation Street was behind her and the cabbie was also shouting for her to stop.
She accelerated towards the man in the road before braking suddenly. She repeatedly told police: “I have not done anything. I have just passed my test.”
Police found she had no shoes on and there was a pair of slippers in the footwell. A breath test showed 64 micrograms of alcohol in her body - 35 is the limit. She told police she had only passed her test three weeks previously.
Peter Manning, defending, said his client, who had no previous convictions, had gone to a friend’s and had had no intention of drinking, but she had some alcohol and then a woman friend persuaded her to give her a lift into town.
Leskiw said she was in panic and shock when people remonstrated with her at the scene. She was disappointed to have committed the offence and she was sorry.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/crime/blackpool-from-the-courts-26-04-17-1-8511477
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