A bar worker from Tenby who crashed her car on her way home after a shift has been given a lengthy motoring ban after admitting a drink-driving charge.

Thirty-year-old Kate Louise Davies, of The Clicketts, appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with driving her VW Golf on Clicketts Lane, after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in her breath exceeded the prescribed limit.

Prosecutor Dennis Davies told the court that at 9 pm on Sunday, January 14, police received a call from an ambulance crew member who had come across a vehicle abandoned in a ditch by the side of the road between Tenby and Gumfreston.

Police officers located the vehicle, but there was no sign of the driver nearby.

The car registration showed up for an address registered to Letterston, and when officers spoke to Ms Davies’ parents, they explained that she now lived in Tenby.

Some time later, officers went to Ms Davies’s Tenby address regarding the incident and she told them ‘I hold my hands up to that, I had been drinking, I’m not denying it’.

She told officers that she had hit a kerb, causing her to crash her car.

Ms Davies failed a breathalyser test and was arrested and taken to the police station where she gave a reading of 71 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

Defence solicitor, Jonathan Webb told the court that it was ‘always disappointing’ when a person of clean character came before the courts.

“Ms. Davies works at a bar in Tenby and she’d had a couple of drinks before walking home. Somewhat foolishly, she jumped in the car. It’s not a huge distance to her home.

“She was going to turn into the estate, but there was a car coming out, so she drove a little further on to turn around and then crashed.

“It’s fair to say that she’s learnt her lesson. This is not an experience that she’s enjoyed and not something she’s keen to repeat!” added Mr. Webb.

Magistrates disqualified Ms Davies from driving for 19 months and fined her £300 for the offence, telling her that it was lucky that there was nobody else involved and no-one hurt.

She was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.