Police took a drink driver to hospital for treatment because he was so drunk his breath test results were more than six times the legal alcohol limit.
Paul Garfoot had 214 microgrammes of alcohol in breath when police first tested him – and 155 when an evidential test was taken at a police station following his release from hospital.
Garfoot (47) received a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, 150 hours’ unpaid work and a five-year ban when he appeared at Spalding Magistrates’ Court for sentence on Thursday.
He pleaded guilty at a hearing in February to driving at Elsthorpe Lane, Morton, on August 12 last year with 155 microgrammes of alcohol in breath – the legal limit is 35. He must pay £120 costs.
The ban imposed on Thursday will run from the time of his guilty plea.
Garfoot, of Elsthorpe Lane, Grimsthorpe, has been serving an interim ban.
Rebecca Ritson, prosecuting, said residents saw Garfoot apparently drunk at about 7.40pm – one advised him not to drive but Garfoot allegedly replied that he “didn’t care”.
Police were called and a number of residents got into a car, followed Garfoot to his driveway and then continued to the junction with the A151, flagging down the police car that had been summoned.
Miss Ritson said one witness feared Garfoot’s car would end up in a ditch.
Garfoot served a three year ban for drink-driving in 2008 and has two convictions for being drunk and disorderly.
Solicitor Daven Naghen, mitigating, said Garfoot had a quarrel with his father and left home to go to the shop on the night he was arrested.
Since then he has seen Addaction and his GP for help.
Mr Naghen described Garfoot as “one of life’s worriers” and he knows he will face prison if he steps out of line.