{"id":141259,"date":"2020-06-19T09:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=141259"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:52:48","slug":"nurse-drives-7-miles-down-wrong-side-of-motorway-after-drinking-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/nurse-drives-7-miles-down-wrong-side-of-motorway-after-drinking-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse Drives 7 Miles Down Wrong Side Of Motorway After Drinking Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nurse who apparently drank two glasses of wine before getting behind the wheel her car has been banned from driving.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emma in her red polo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In case you haven\u2019t read the headline, she received a \u00a0 driving ban after driving up the wrong side of the motorway for 7 miles, after drinking two large glasses of booze.<\/p>\n

After being spotted by police, 43 year old Emma Marshall-Davis was finally pulled over on the\u00a0A467 in Newport, after driving in the fast lane on the m4.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutor Rob Simpkins said: “This was a prolonged piece of bad driving with deliberate disregard for the safety of others. It was aggravated by the fact that she was drunk at the wheel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The defendant had driven on the slip road the wrong way and other drivers flashed their headlights at her. She drove past three junctions before she performed a U-turn.<\/p>\n

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“She was the only person inside the car and she was smelling of drink and her words were slurred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“When she was interviewed, she told police she was a nurse who helped adults with mental health problems. She said she was separated from her husband and cares for her mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“She told them she had drank two glasses of wine and decided to drive because she wanted to leave her house.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She was breathalysed and the reading came back as 53 – the legal limit is 35 in the UK. When asked why she decided to drive, she told police she just wanted to get out of the house.<\/div>\n
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Her defending, saidin court that: “This wasn’t a case where she was suicidal or wanted to harm herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“She drank through stress and on an empty stomach. This is a lady of previous clean character.”V<\/p>\n

She was handed a 12 month driving ban, and a pretty large fine, after the judge explained how her actions could have easily caused fatalities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nurse who apparently drank two glasses of wine before getting behind the wheel her car has been banned from driving.   \u00a0 In case you haven\u2019t read the headline, she received a \u00a0 driving ban after driving up the wrong side of the motorway for 7 miles, after drinking two large glasses of booze….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":141260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556,1727,1441,1921,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-141259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-driving","tag-driving-offence","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141262,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141259\/revisions\/141262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}