A drink driver who crashed into a garden in Chippenham has been banned from the roads.
Dean Dickens ploughed through a local resident’s newly erected fence in Lackham Circus, off Ladyfield Road, in the early hours of 5 November last year.
His car, a red Vauxhall Astra, was abandoned at the scene but officers swiftly located and arrested the defendant.
The collision caused “extensive damage” to the garden fence, Wiltshire Police said following the incident.
The 37-year-old, who lived a matter of metres away from the smash at the time, pleaded guilty to driving whilst over the prescribed alcohol limit at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on 3 January.
Dickens, previously of Stockwood Road, Chippenham, but now of Mallory Avenue, Rotherham in Yorkshire, was disqualified from driving for 12 months.
The length of the driving ban will be reduced by 91 days if he completes an accredited drink-drive course. He must pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £48 surcharge.
