Izzy Liney
New Member
Hello
I was driving my works vehicle, a long wheel base sprinter, home from a friends house at about 11pm whom i had visited after a long day working at home. I had the music turned up and heard a big bang from the passenger side wheel. The van did not slow or stop and I thought I had had a blow out. I was minutes away from my house. I thought I would probably wreck the rim of the wheel at bit but thought it better to get it back on my drive so I could change the tyre in the morning when I was flying to Naples to take my son on a birthday treat. When I arrived home I saw the wheel was actually hanging off of the axle although there was only superficial damage to the body work of the vehicle so I still assumed that i had hit a pot hole or something and broken the wheel. I panicked because it is a works vehicle and I was concerned about getting to the airport the next day. I had had one glass of wine over the whole evening at my friends house and when I got in to my house I drank the bottle of prossecco I had been saving for when I got home and went to bed. I was then woken by the police about an hour later who had been called by a witness who has seem me scrape along two cars. I was arrested and taken to the police station where I blew 72. I have now received a court summons for drink driving and leaving the scene of an accident for 2nd August and I really don't know what to do I wasn't over the limit when I was driving and I didn't know I had hit any other vehicle. I am an event manager and driving is a major part of my career. I have had a clean license (bar one speeding fine and one running a red light) for 22 years and have driven all over the UK and Europe as part of my job. Please help.
I was driving my works vehicle, a long wheel base sprinter, home from a friends house at about 11pm whom i had visited after a long day working at home. I had the music turned up and heard a big bang from the passenger side wheel. The van did not slow or stop and I thought I had had a blow out. I was minutes away from my house. I thought I would probably wreck the rim of the wheel at bit but thought it better to get it back on my drive so I could change the tyre in the morning when I was flying to Naples to take my son on a birthday treat. When I arrived home I saw the wheel was actually hanging off of the axle although there was only superficial damage to the body work of the vehicle so I still assumed that i had hit a pot hole or something and broken the wheel. I panicked because it is a works vehicle and I was concerned about getting to the airport the next day. I had had one glass of wine over the whole evening at my friends house and when I got in to my house I drank the bottle of prossecco I had been saving for when I got home and went to bed. I was then woken by the police about an hour later who had been called by a witness who has seem me scrape along two cars. I was arrested and taken to the police station where I blew 72. I have now received a court summons for drink driving and leaving the scene of an accident for 2nd August and I really don't know what to do I wasn't over the limit when I was driving and I didn't know I had hit any other vehicle. I am an event manager and driving is a major part of my career. I have had a clean license (bar one speeding fine and one running a red light) for 22 years and have driven all over the UK and Europe as part of my job. Please help.
