Drink driving and excess alcohol
After a long day at work people often drop into the local bar and enjoy a refreshing pint or glass of wine with colleagues. One drink turns into two and two into three and so on. This could lead to you driving with too much alcohol in your system. Another common situation is when you wake up after a night out with alcohol still being expelled from your system and you need to get home or go to work, often people take the risk and drive.
Sound familiar? we can help It is usually at
this stage when people realise how much they value their driving licence and
this is the time to turn to driving defences for damage limitation.
We are in a unique position due to our extensive knowledge of this area of law to go through your individual circumstances to see what can be done to keep your driving licence.
The most common misconception is that the court has a discretion to allow you to keep your driving licence, if you explain how difficult it will be to lose it. The Court has a minimum sentence and if convicted they must give you a minimum of twelve months disqualification. Your personal mitigation cannot have any effect upon this.
However, Driving Defences solicitors will go through each case with a fine tooth comb to assess whether a guilty plea is your best option. Often a breath test procedure can be investigated for operator error or breaches of procedure and if there has been a problem a Court will often be left with no option but to follow the case law and acquit the accused. We make no guarantees of acquittal and you should not listen to anyone who does, but what we can guarantee is that our experts will look at every stage of the procedure to see if a Guilty plea really is your only option.
Even if we advise you to plead guilty our expert knowledge of case law and statute can in fact allow a Court to impose no disqualification. This is explained in further detail in our Drink Driving Defences section but our expert solicitors are happy to speak to you right now to explain to you what we can do without any initial charges.
Let us explain what you need to know to understand drink driving and excess alcohol.