A DRINK driver was more than three-times the limit when he hit a parked car.

Gavin Salter, aged 34, of Maycroft, Evesham, was kept at the scene by members of the public after the crash in Bretforton, a court heard.

Salter appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court on Thursday where he admitted driving on Friday, August 31 with 121mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath – more than three times the legal limit of 35mcg and driving with no insurance.

Shafquat Reaz, prosecuting, said a witness had seen the defendant regularly under-cutting on the carriageway and was later seen to hit a parked car.

Mr Reaz said that following the crash "members of the public kept him there" while the police arrived.

He added that Salter had done a roadside breath test and was found to have no insurance.

He was arrested and taken into custody at Worcester Police Station.

Magistrates were handed a letter from the probation service containing mitigation on the defendant's behalf.

Charles Hobbs, defending, said: "He was not in a good place at that particular time.

"The vehicle he was using belonged to his father who has been hospitalised.

"He just hadn't been thinking straight recently.

"He was interviewed in full and admitted what he had done."

Magistrates gave Salter a 12-week custodial sentence suspended for 12 months.

He was disqualified from driving for 30 months and ordered to pay £100 for having no insurance, £50 for breeching a community order, prosecution costs of £100 and a £115 victim surcharge.

Salter was offered a drink-drive course, which could reduce his ban by a quarter if completed successfully.