A local woman has been banned from driving for 24 months and ordered to do 40  hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to a drink driving offence. 

A statement from the RGP follows below:

Sharon Kumar, 59, of the South District, was sentenced at the Magistrates’ Court  this morning, for the offence of Driving with Alcohol Concentration over Limit. 

The court heard that at about 2:45pm on Monday 20 December last year, a member  of the public reported to the police that they had seen a car driving in a slow manner,  swerving between lanes and almost causing several accidents from Rosia Road to  Line Wall Road. 

Officers then located the vehicle on Line Wall Road and signalled for the car to pull  over, which Kumar did, forcefully hitting the side of a wall and damaging her car in  the process. 

After noticing that she was unsteady on her feet, she was slurring her words and that  she smelt of alcoholic drinks, she was asked to give a sample of breath on the  roadside breathalyser. 

She gave a reading of 130ug/100ml – the legal limit is 35 micrograms (ug) of alcohol  per 100 millilitres of breath. 

Officers then arrested Kumar, at which point she admitted that she had been  drinking. 

Later that evening at New Mole House, she provided a urine sample, which again  showed she was more than three times over the limit.