A mum drove her young son to the beach from England to north Wales while four times over the drink-drive limit. Sadie Smith, of Centurion Drive in Meols in the Wirral, was caught on camera ploughing over a roundabout and into a grass verge.
Wrexham Magistrates court heard it was "nothing short of sheer luck" that she didn't cause a serious accident. Smith, 47, cried as her family sat beside her while the court was shown footage of her almost colliding with a road sign on the A548 in Flintshire in March, with her son, aged seven, in the car with her.
Now, the mum has been given a three-year driving ban, reports NorthWalesLive. READ MORE: Tesco customers 'are asking staff to stop scanning their food' as boss hits out Prosecutor Helen Tench said Smith had been been drinking the night before and had had some alcohol in the hours before she set off to find a North Wales beach.
A concerned member of the public called police at about midday on March 19 when they saw a Saab Index being driven "erratically" in Flintshire.
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