A 24-YEAR-old man has been disqualified from driving and will have to pay more than £600 to the courts after admitting to failing to provide a specimen to city police for a drink-drive test.
Worcester magistrates heard Kieran Addis had crashed into a parked car in the road he lived before leaving the scene.
Mark Hambling, prosecuting, said at 2.40am on May 21 police were called to Kingston Avenue, Worcester, where a Vauxhall Corsa had crashed.
Police checks revealed the registered owner to be the 24-year-old and police attended his home.
Mr Hambling said Addis was asked to take a roadside breathalyser test which he failed, leading to his arrest.
The prosecutor said at the station Addis then failed to provide the evidential samples of breath required.
"There is no reason given for the failure to perform that," Mr Hambling said.
The prosecutor added magistrates might consider the crash as an aggravating feature of the case.
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Jason Patel, defending Addis, said the defendant had been on a night out in Worcester, parking in The Tything.
Mr Patel said while walking home Addis passed the car.
"As he walked past he made the stupid, foolish decision to drive home," the solicitor said.
Mr Patel said Addis panicked after the crash but was cooperative with officers when they arrested him.
The solicitor said Addis had not deliberately refused to give the specimen explaining the defendant suffers from anxiety and asthma.
Mr Patel added Addis was a bricklayer and the inevitable driving ban would have a big impact as the current site he was working at was in Ross-on-Wye.
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Philip Newton, chairman of the magistrates bench, banned Addis from driving for a year.
But he was offered the chance to take the drink-drive awareness course that will reduce the ban length if he successfully completes it.
Addis was fined £333 and told to pay victim surcharge of £133 and costs of £135 - a total of £601.
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