“MY FLIP-FLOP FELL OFF” SAID DRINK-DRIVER AFTER CRASH
A 49-year-old woman crashed her car into another vehicle when almost five times over the limit.
However, Kelly Peattie’s excuse for causing the crash was “My flip-flop fell off”.
Peattie, of Balgreggie Park, Auchterderran, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
She admitted that on 25th February at Woodend Road, Cardenden and elsewhere, she drove a car having consumed excess alcohol.
Her reading was 234 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, the limit being 50 milligrammes.
She also drove without insurance.
The court was told that at 4.50pm, Peattie came off a roundabout, veering on to the wrong side of the road and struck another car.
She got out of her vehicle and spoke to the driver, who had children in his car.
Peattie told him her flip-flop had fallen off, causing her to lose control, before leaving the scene.
The police were contacted and went to her home where Peattie failed the breath test.
She claimed she had been drinking the night before but not during the day of the crash.
However, Sheriff Krista Johnston was not impressed by Peattie’s story saying, “It’s inconceivable that you didn’t drink with a reading as high as this”.
She imposed a community payback order with 110 hours of unpaid work and an 18-month driving ban.
Hi, I was the driver of the car she smashed into, I lost my job,I lost my car,my ability to take my family out as one,I have just started physiotherapy for the injuries I sustained-lumbar back pain,chest compressions,neck and shoulder pain and immobility, my 12 year old daughter also sustained injuries to her leg and is ongoing,yoga insure/one call insurance threw me under a bus by lying about my claim so they didn’t need to pay out but my bank statement showed them to be liars unfortunately I cannot afford a lawyer to help chase them,I have been put into insurmountable debt with no financial compensation from anybody, I am angry at the leniency of this sentence and I would have expected a custodial sentence because of all the heartbreak,pain and suffering,mental anguish that this woman has put me and my family through.