A 'panicked' drink driver with crippling anxiety crashed into a hedge, ran away from the scene and hid in his bedroom - his mum telling officers where he was.

Liam Jones told officers that going for a drive was part of his 'escape plan' if he was suffering a mental health episode and felt he was at risk of self-harming.

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However, the 20-year-old was more than two and a half times the limit when his Volkswagen Polo left the road and crashed into a field hedge after a night out in Worcester.

Witnesses called 999 following the crash in Broadwas on October 3 this year after they saw Jones 'running into the distance up the road'.

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Jones admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared before city magistrates on Thursday. Police were able to trace Jones via the police national computer to his home in Primrose Bank, Newtown, Martley, near Worcester.

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Ralph Robyns-Landricombe, prosecuting, said when the defendant's mum answered the door she told officers: "You're here because he's crashed his car. He's panicked and he's upstairs in his room."

He explained that he had suffered a panic attack. Officers asked Jones, still fully clothed, to get out of bed to check for any possible injuries. Officers described him as being 'unsteady on his feet' and referred to his eyes as 'glazed'. "They could smell alcohol on his breath" said the prosecutor.

The lowest evidential reading was 91mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath, more than two and a half times the limit of 35.

"He had been out in Worcester with his friends drinking until about 2.30am in the morning and got a taxi to his home address. He started to feel he was going to self-harm" said the prosecutor.

Part of his strategy to deal with such an episode was to drive his car and he had been heading to a friend's house in Malvern before he 'crashed the car into the hedge because he started to have a panic attack'. Jones, who had been driving three years on a full clean licence, said he had tried to move the car put this proved unsuccessful.

Mark Turnbull, defending, said: "Mr Jones struggles with quite severe anxiety, receiving therapy in relation to that. As part of that therapy there is a safe plan in place which essentially attempts to deal with, or puts a plan in place for when he's feeling particularly anxious. He does have a history of self harm and some suicide attempts."

He added: "Essentially the choice he made was that 'if I stay here I'm going to do something regrettable'."

As a result of the incident his medication has been increased. The landscaper and ground worker has been off work since the incident. The medication was said to cause 'drowsiness ad dizziness'. Once disqualified from driving he would lose his job in any event, the court heard.

Mr Turnbull said a curfew would not be suitable because part of his advice was to have 'an escape plan' to prevent self-harm. "We could have a young man doing something really regrettable to himself" he said.

Magistrates banned him from driving for 28 months, fined him £738 and ordered him to pay costs of £135 and a victim surcharge of £74.

David Shadwell, the chairman of the bench, said: "I will give you a severe warning. If you drive while disqualified that attracts a custodial sentence and you will be disqualified again."