AN OBAN pensioner has been banned from driving for 16 months and fined £500 after he drove into a petrol pump while over the drink drive limit.
Martin Stewart, 71, of Glenview Guest House, Soroba Road, admitted charges of careless driving while being almost three times over the legal limit at Oban Filling Station on September 18.
Procurator fiscal Eoin McGinty told Oban Sheriff Court on Wednesday September 28 that the accused was witnessed at 7pm that evening driving into the petrol station on Soroba Road to buy a half bottle of whisky.
Then at 9.30pm, he said, ‘the cashier watched the accused collide with one of the pumps, and abandon his car at an odd angle. He made his way back into the shop staggering. The accused asked for cigarettes and alcohol.’
Staff refused to sell him these and pleaded with him not to drive off, but ‘he drove off with his door open,’ Mr McGinty said.