SEVEN more convicted Christmas drink drivers have been punished and banned from driving by Bournemouth magistrates.
During last year's Dorset Police crackdown, which took place between December 1 and 31, 48 people were charged with drink or drug driving offences.
Appearing in court on December 31, 47-year-old Amanda Webber was handed a one year community order with a requirement that she complete 80 hours of unpaid work, after being caught drink driving in Dunyeats Road, Broadstone, on December 12.
Webber, of Wayfarers, Gosport, was breath tested and found to have 107 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, more than three times the limit of 35 micrograms.
She admitted the offence, and was also ordered to pay the Crown's costs of £85 and banned from driving for 25 months.
On the same day two others were sentenced, Jamie Gareth King, 51, of Carbery Avenue, Bournemouth, and Sandra Beesley, 47, of Camellia Close, Three Legged Cross.
King's Honda Civic was stopped by police in Ibbertson Road, Bournemouth, on December 13, and he was found to have 58 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of his breath. He pleaded guilty and magistrates banned him from driving for 14 months and issued a £340 fine and costs.
Beesley admitted driving in West Moors Road, Ferndown, on December 13 with 76 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of her breath. She was fined £220, ordered to pay costs and disqualified for 20 months.
January 12 and 13 saw four further drink drivers sentenced at the same court.
Both Sarah Marie Traylor, 33, of Stourcliffe Avenue, Bournemouth, and Jack Sherwood, 28, of Drake Road, Poole, received three year bans for their offences.
Traylor was also fined £290 and ordered to pay costs after admitting driving a Renault Clio on the A35 in Christchurch on December 28 with 84 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of her breath.
Sherwood, who was also sentenced for breaching a suspended sentence order, admitted driving a Vauxhall Astra in Poole Road, Bournemouth, on December 12, with 52 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml breath.
He was fined £220 for both offences and ordered to pay costs.
On Christmas Day Daniel Anthony Clark, 34, of Gordon Road, Pennington, was caught driving a Toyota panel van in Bath Road, Bournemouth, with 84 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml breath.
Clark, who admitted the offence, was fined £120 with costs, and banned for 20 months.
Rafal Lukasz, 34, of Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth, was caught drink driving in an Audi in the same road the next day, Boxing Day, with 72 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml breath.
He was disqualified for 20 months, fined £300 and ordered to pay costs.
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