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Drunk beer delivery driver loses more than cheap car insurance

A lager delivery driver has been sentenced to four months in prison after admitting he had drunk 20 pints of beer before starting his rounds.

The 53-year-old trucker had been delivering beer for two years in spite of a previous drink driving conviction, and considered himself 'the luckiest man in the world'.

Police were alerted on January 24 by the landlord of a west London pub after the clearly inebriated trucker called in on him whilst making that day's deliveries. Officers arrived to find the man struggling to climb back into his truck cab.

Later, Ealing Magistrates Court heard that he was 'swaying from side to side and unsteady on his feet,' and that a breath test taken at the scene revealed he had more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

To the officers' surprise, the man then freely admitted drinking around 20 pints the night before and said he routinely drank 10 pints in a day. However, he denied he had a drinking problem during his court appearance.

Besides the jail term he was given a three-year driving ban, which will effectively end his career as a delivery driver and make it almost impossible to find cheap car insurance afterwards.

Mike Page, Hoot spokesman and an expert on cheap car insurance, said: "A drink driving conviction can make it really hard for truckers to find work, because corporate motor insurance firms are unwilling to take on the extra risk.

"It's odd to think that a brewery, of all places, would make this kind of exception."

 

 

 

 

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