A drugged-up driver who had taken cocaine before getting behind the wheel has been handed a lengthy road ban.
Paul Kemp, aged 43, was caught in a Seat Ibiza on the A464 in Telford on March 15 this year.
A drug test found he had 758 microgrammes of benzolecgonine - a substance which metabolises in the body after cocaine is taken - per litre of blood. The legal limit, accounting for accidental exposure, is 50mcg. Kemp, of Stonebridge Close, Telford, pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to driving a motor vehicle with a controlled drug above the specified limit.
Magistrates banned him from driving for 40 months and fined him £120. Kemp must also pay £135 in prosecution costs and a £48 victim surcharge.
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