Mate 'spiked' driver's drink
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• While attending a union meeting a 28year-old Manchester lorry driver drank a pint of stout. But unbeknown to the driver, one of his workmates had "spiked" the drink with three rums as he thought his mate was not driving after the meeting.
This was said at a court in Manchester last week when the driver, Mr Anthony Leslie Taylor, of Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield, Manchester, escaped a driving ban which would normally have been imposed for two reasons. The court heard that Taylor, who admitted driving with excess alcohol in his blood, had been stopped by police after leaving the meeting because he was driving a van on a motorway with one of the headlights missing. Tests then carried out showed that he had 125 milligrams of alcohol in his blood as compared with the legal limit of 80 milligrams.
He was fined £75 for the offence, and also fined £15 for driving a vehicle with only one headlight.