Moment drunk HGV driver swerves across dual carriageway before he’s arrested for being SIX times over limit as police find whisky bottles in his cab
A drunk HGV driver drove onto a dual carriageway before being arrested for being six times over the limit.
Darek Smagiel, 55, was stopped by police with several bottles of whiskey in his Iveco HGV truck.
He took a roadside breath test and exhaled 221 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath; this was more than six times the legal limit of 35 micrograms.
Police stopped the truck on the A14 at Fenstanton on Monday afternoon.
Smagiel was sentenced to prison after members of the public reported his dangerous driving to police.
At Cambridge Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Smagiel, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to drink driving and dangerous driving.
Cambridgeshire Police officers stopped 55-year-old Darek Smagiel’s truck and found several bottles of whiskey inside
A roadside breath test found it to be more than six times the legal limit of 35 micrograms.
He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years and disqualified from driving for three years.
PC James Allen, of the Road Policing Unit, said: ‘Smagiel’s driving fell well below the standards of a careful and competent driver.
‘It put members of the public at serious risk of collision.
‘I would like to thank the citizens who called to report their driving, which kept them off the roads for a considerable period of time.’
