penny0805
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I was charged with drink driving over a week ago.i had drunk a lot on Saturdaynight and hadn't eaten anything Saturday or Sunday. At lunchtime Sunday I went out in my car.I had only got to the end of my road when I started to feel really faint. I turned onto the next street to loop round and drive back home. The next thing I remember is a couple asking me if I was ok. My car had mounted the small grass verge at the side of the road and the bumper was leaning on a lamppost. No damage to my car or the lamppost but the couple said they had had to jump out of the way. They had called an ambulance who came and said my blood pressure was low but they called the police presumably because they could smell drink. I was breathalysed arrested and spent five hours in a cell. My breath reading was 57.i am in absolute bits and can't eat or sleep. I'm a single parent and am terrified I'll go to prison. I've seen a solicitor who said absolutely not but because the couple had to dodge out of the way there's a tiny chance they could give me something like a curfew.I'm already being treated for depression and recognised some months ago i was suffering from a relapse of alcoholism. I drank in my twenties but was teetotal for 13 years before a job redeployment caused me depression.i am already attending an alcohol help Centre and taking classes on alcohol awareness. Does anybody have any advice. I am literally making myself ill with the fear of court and the guilt. Thanks a lot