Drunk driver hit police car

A driver was more than twice over the alcohol limit when he clipped the wing mirror of a police car.
Witness appeal after tractor damaged in Sunderland.Witness appeal after tractor damaged in Sunderland.
Witness appeal after tractor damaged in Sunderland.

Normunds Bilnskis, a 34-year-old Latvian national who works at a food factory, of Wellington Street, Kirkham, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.

He was banned from the road for 18 months and fined £310 with £85 costs plus £31 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.

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Prosecutor, Martine Connah, said on August 5 at 5.40pm two officers were in an unmarked police car on Blackpool’s Osborne Road.

One officer got out and then heard a loud bang. The officers saw a Volvo driven by Bilnskis had collided with the police car wing mirror and damaged it.

Bilnskis pulled his vehicle in front of the police car. A breath test showed 78 micrograms of alcohol in his body - 35 is the limit.

Adam Whittaker, defending, said his client, who had no previous convictions, had lived and worked in Britain for the last eight years.

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The night before the offence Bilnskis had been at a friend’s and drunk a large amount of alcohol into the early hours.

He then went home and slept late before decided to drive to a shop and get some food. He clipped the police car wing mirror as he was pulling into the shop.