A woman more than three times the drink-drive limit crashed into a ditch when she swerved to miss a fox.
Emergency services were called to the A151 at Dozens Bank, West Pinchbeck, shortly after 10pm on January 12.
Jim Clare, prosecuting, told Spalding magistrates that Denise Clark was freed from her car by ambulance paramedics and a blood sample at hospital showed 268 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood – more than three times the limit of 80mgs.
In a statement to police, Clark admitted drinking that evening and said she had an argument with her partner, resulting in them splitting up.
Clark then went to a Spalding pub run by her father, had more to drink, and then went off to find her ex-partner.
As she drove towards Bourne, a fox appeared in the road and caused her to swerve and go into a ditch.
Clark (38), of Arnhem Way, Bourne, was given a community order with nine months supervision by probation and a requirement to have six months’ alcohol treatment.
She was banned from driving for 24 months, but can cut six months off that if she completes a rehabilitation course.
Clark received no separate penalties for driving without insurance and without a valid licence.
Magistrates ordered her to pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
Clark pleaded guilty to all three offences.
Solicitor Anita Toal, mitigating, said: “Unfortunately, due to an argument, this defendant took the foolish decision to get behind the wheel of a car when she had drunk too much.”
Following the argument, she went into the pub which her partner’s parents own and then decided to go home.
“She appreciates the aggravating situation of the high reading and obviously she is utterly ashamed of herself today,” Mrs Toal said. “She tends to drink and tends to binge drink when she has a problem and that is what happened on this day.”
Clark had voluntarily referred herself to Addaction to get help with her drinking.
Mrs Toal said Clark had insurance, but it was not valid because her driving licence had been revoked at the time of the offence.