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Portsmouth drink driver gets five year ban

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Published: 06/01/2011

A Portsmouth man who was more than three times over the legal limit has been banned from getting behind the wheel for five years.

45 year old Oleg Avdejev, of Spenlow Close in Portsmouth was stop checked after officers received reports that he was driving erratically down Auckland Road on December 29.

PCs Karl Warner and Andy Frost from the Eastney and Milton Safer Neighbourhoods team breathalysed Avdejev, and found him to be three times over the legal limit for driving.

PC Warner said: “A traffic warden had originally noticed the driver was under the influence of alcohol when they spoke to him about being stationary on yellow lines. After this we were alerted and the council followed him on CCTV whilst we pursued him.

“The driver was clearly not sober when we came across him and his breath test proved this. It was only after we had arrested him that we found him to also be disqualified from driving.”

The maximum legal limit of alcohol a person can have when being breathalysed is 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. When checked, Avdejev showed to have 117 micrograms of alcohol – over three times the limit.

Avdejev was arrested and charged, and appeared in Portsmouth Magistrates Court on December 30. After pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol, with no insurance and whilst disqualified, he received a five year driving ban and 20 weeks imprisonment.

PC Warner added: “This was a great result for the community and shows that it’s just not worth taking the risk. I hope others take this as a warning, and learnt he lesson that you will be punished if caught drink driving.”

If you would like to learn more about your local Safer Neighbourhoods team, you can call 101 or log on to www.hampshire.police.uk and click on ‘Your local Policing team’.

 

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