A DOLGELLAU motorist crashed her car and broke a tele­graph pole on the outskirts of the town while over the drink-drive limit, magistrates have heard.

Llinos Lloyd, 41, of Cambrian Terrace, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol in the early hours of the morning on 1 February.

Diane Williams, prosecuting, said that police officers noticed that Lloyd was under the influence of alcohol and subsequent readings showed that she had 92 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

The court heard that the incident occurred on an unclassified road between Dolgellau and Llanfachreth, near Moel View, when the defendant’s Suzuki Swift collided with a telegraph pole.

As a result of her actions in calling the police and an early guilty plea, magistrates decided not to impose a community order, even though the alcohol reading was well over double the legal limit.

Court chairman Alun Pugh told Lloyd: “You had crossed the community order threshold, but bec­ause of your actions we are reducing your penalty to a fine.”

Lloyd was fined £210 for drink-driving, with £85 prosecution costs and £21 victim surcharge.

She was banned from driving for two years, but was offered and acc­epted a drink-drive rehabilitation course that, if completed satisfactorily, would reduce the driving ban by six months.