It turned out to be an expensive day for two Spalding men, one the owner of a Mercedes car and the other a man who was test driving his car with a view to purchasing it.
Edgaras Sukvietis, 26, of Spring Gardens admitted driving whilst under the influence of cannabis and to driving without insurance when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Marie Stace, prosecuting, said that on March 31, Sukvietis, who was test driving a Mercedes on the
B1172 at Spalding Common, collided with a Vauxhall Astra coming out of a junction and gave a positive drugs test, with a reading of 2.8 of cannabis, against a legal limit of 2.
Dave Clapham, mitigating, said Sukvietis had smoked cannabis the previous day and had also assumed he was covered by the car owner’s insurance, but ‘now knows he wasn’t’.
After hearing he had a previous similar conviction, Sukvietis was banned from driving for three years and fined £300 and ordered to pay costs and charges f £115.
The owner of the car, Julius Karbauskas, 31, of Park Road, was fined £120 for allowing Sukvietis to
drive without insurance, with an additional £115 in costs and charges.
Six points were put on his licence which meant he had to be disqualified from driving for six months under the totting up procedure.
