• Readers will remember the odd tale of the haulage
7th March 1991, Page 26
7th March 1991
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boss who escaped a drink-driving ban when he proved that he had asked for low-alcohol beer, but his heedless mate had bought him Lowenbrau instead.
But if you think that takes some swallowing how about the woman who escaped a drink-driving ban because she was asleep while driving the wrong way along the A454.
It seems that Margaret Ridgley was in a "state of automatism" when police stopped her and found she was nearly three times over the limit, having sleepwalked to her car, found the keys and driven off.
"She got up in her sleep and made a meaningless journey", a consultant psychiatrist told the court. Don't we all?
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