Drink driver crashed into garden wall

A drink driver reversed his car into a garden wall while more than five times the legal limit.

Brennan Kiplagat, 24, drove his Audi into the wall in Sunningdale Drive, Fen Road, Cambridge, on the evening of Saturday 25 January.

No one was injured but residents living further along the road called police.

Officers arrived and found Kiplagat asleep in the car nearby.

He claimed he hadn’t been drinking, but officers noticed a bottle of whisky on the passenger seat. 

He blew 177 on a roadside breath test, more than five times the legal limit of 35, and was arrested. 

Kiplagat, of Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, pleaded guilty to drink driving at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (19 February) and was disqualified for 29 months and ordered to pay a fine of £1230. 

PC Sophie Walker, who investigated, said: “Kiplagat was in no fit state to drive and should not have been behind the wheel. 

“I would like to thank the person who called us because it meant we could take him off the road before he was about to drive any further.”