A Spalding man who hid in a ditch and garden while fleeing police after drunkenly crashing his car in a field has been banned from driving for a second time.
Declan Dunmore, 25, of Orchard Park, Fleet admitted driving with excess alcohol and obstructing the police when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Paul Wood said Dunmore had crashed his Peugeot 207 car through a gate into a field at around 5pm on August 6.
He said he had then been given a lift by a member of the public to his place of work but returned to his car later, when police had attended.
Mr Wood said that after he gave a positive breath test, he absconded from the police before he could be arrested, hiding in a water filled ditch, entirely covering himself, and then running across a field and hiding in a garden where he was found and arrested.
He gave a breath test measuring 78 microgrammes of alcohol, the legal limit being 35.
He said that in interview, Dunmore alleged someone else had been driving the car but forensic evidence from the air bag showed he had been driving.
Mr Wood told the magistrates Dunmore had a previous excess alcohol conviction in 2018, when he was banned from driving for 26 months.
Mitigating, Anita Toal said Dunmore had ‘foolishly’ driven after going out for a drink and he apologised for his ‘shenanigans’ after the collision.
She told the magistrates Dunmore had had problems with drink for many years and could not stop without help, which he was seeking.
Dunmore was banned from driving for 40 months but was offered the drink drivers’ rehabilitation course, which will reduce the period of the ban by 40 weeks.
He was also fined £500 for the excess alcohol offence and £166 for obstructing the police and ordered to
pay a total of £135 in court costs and charges.
