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Woman was above the drink-drive limit when she overtook Police car

A Sandys woman admitted driving while over the blood alcohol limit, but insisted that she was not impaired.

Tashae Bean, 22, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court of driving with a proportion of blood higher than the legal limit, but refuted the details of the case put forward by Crown counsel Larissa Burgess.

According to Ms. Burgess, Police on mobile patrol at around 2.47 a.m. on October 9 noticed a black motorcycle with its high beams on driving a short distance behind their marked Police car.

The bike then overtook the Police car and turned from Cambridge Road onto Mangrove Bay Road, and into the incoming lane.

Police pulled over the bike, and said that the rider had "become very talkative, and was speaking in a high pitched voice."

Noticing that she was slurring her words, the Officers asked Bean, the rider, if she had been drinking.

Bean told officers that she had drunk two shots of scotch.

She was later taken to Somerset Police Station where she was given a breath test.

The test showed Bean had 127 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, above the legal limit is 80 milligrams.

In court, Bean repeatedly denied driving in the manner described by Ms Burgess.

"Why in your right mind would you drive so fast in front of a Police car?" she said.

"What they said is nonsense. I want to take that to court. All of that is lies."

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner pointed out that Bean had not been charged with speeding or reckless driving.

"This is nothing to do with speeding or wobbling," he said. "Those matters that you dispute does not affect the charges or the penalty imposed."

Mr. Warner fined Bean $1,000 and issued ten demerit points in addition to banning her from driving all vehicles for 12 months.