A man from Wiltshire was caught riding an electric scooter whilst drunk on holiday.
62-year-old Robert John Curtis pleaded guilty to using a motor vehicle whilst over the prescribed alcohol limit in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, on 6 August.
The defendant, of Hindon Lane, Tisbury, was arrested after a police officer stopped him in the High Street, where he’d ridden the e-scooter for just 40 yards.
After failing a roadside breath test, he was arrested. In custody, he provided an evidential reading of 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
At Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (23 August), his solicitor Barry Arnett said that Curtis got into a conversation with a woman with an e-scooter and she asked him if he wanted to have a go on it.
He added that when stopped by the officer, Curtis had no idea what he had done was illegal.
Arnett also requested a hearing to have the case rescinded due to the fact the distance driven was so short.
Curtis – who has no previous convictions – was bailed to reappear for a special reasons hearing at the same court on 9 November.
