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A disqualified driver who was caught behind the wheel and over the limit has been convicted for a second time.
Police were called to the junction of Primrose Lane and Riverside Road in Huntingdon at about 2.45pn on Sunday with reports a Vauxhall Vivaro panel van has crashed into a Fiat 500.
The driver of the van, Daniel Holliday, left the scene and was followed by a member of the public to Hartford Road where police arrested him.
In custody Holliday, 44, from Huntingdon, provided an evidential reading of 108, three times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath.
At Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday (10 June), Holliday pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified, driving without insurance, failing to stop after a road accident and drink driving. He was sentenced to eight weeks in prison, suspended for one year. He was also disqualified from driving for three years and eight months and must carry out 120 hours unpaid work.
Holliday was disqualified for 14 months in January after pleading guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis.
PC Dan Carr, who investigated, said: “Holliday had the disqualification paperwork in his van and new full well that he was breaking the law. At three times the drink drive limit he was also putting himself and other road users in danger, and it was lucky the driver and passenger in the Fiat suffered only minor injuries.”
Cambridgeshire Constabulary operate a confidential 24/7 hotline for drink and drug drivers on 0800 032 0845.