Three men were fined between $1,100 and $1,600 for impaired driving and other related offences and given the mandatory one year ban from the roads by a magistrate yesterday.

One man claimed he was impaired because he was ?under the influence of medication?, another was watched by Police as he narrowly avoided collisions while riding a cycle and the third man was pulled over for not having working lights.

Kevin Winston Webb told cops he was on his way to buy more medicine from a supermarket after drinking a glass of wine when he was stopped by Police on North Shore Road, Pembroke.

Magistrates Court heard officers had to take evasive action near Blackwatch Pass by braking hard after the defendant, aged 42, ignored a give way sign.

Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney said Webb had trouble remembering his details after being pulled over, and denied he had been drinking.

Mr. Mahoney said Webb told Police: ?I?m not under the influence of alcohol, I?m under the influence of medication.?

Self-employed Webb told the court he was ?not a drinker?.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner, however, said it did not matter whether the alcohol got into his system through liquor or cough medicine. ?The fact is you were impaired,? added Mr. Warner.

Webb, of Southside Apartments, Pembroke, admitted driving while impaired on September 23 and not having a licence.

He was fined a total of $1,100.

Joao Barbosa was stopped by an officer in an unmarked car at 8.10 p.m. on September 16.

The officer was alerted to the defendant?s driving at the junction of Middle Road and Store Hill as Barbosa tried to negotiate a sharp bend.

The court heard he did not appear to be in full control of the bike ? and was almost responsible for three crashes before he was arrested and failed a breath test.

The 28-year-old also admitted another charge of driving without due care and attention on South Road, Smith?s, on August 22.

Mr. Mahoney said on that occasion Barbosa lost control of his bike across the centre line on a bend near Knapton Hill.

He collided with a car heading the other way and suffered a minor knee injury in the crash.

His bike and the car he collided with were both damaged, the court heard, although the defendant has already paid for damage to the car.

Barbosa, of Sousa Estate Road, Devonshire, was fined a total of $1,250 and banned from driving for 12 months when he appeared before magistrates.

And Richard Alan DeSilva, of White Hill Lane, Sandys, was stopped on Front Street on September 15 at about 10.45 p.m.

He told the court: ?I was drunk and I gave a false name. I?m sorry for that.?

DeSilva, 26, admitted drink driving and attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving his brother?s details to Police. The defendant was fined a total of $1,600.