impaired driving convictions in nine years, a "danger to our roads''.

And before taking the 41-year-old Devonshire man off the road for 18 months, she told him she hoped he would not end up killing himself or someone else.

Colin Scott Brown, of 2 Boundary Crescent Lane, pleaded guilty to driving with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol -- the legal limit -- in his blood on January 28.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Duffy told the court Brown was arrested near Spurling Hill in Pembroke around 11 p.m. after Police attended a two-vehicle accident involving Brown's car and another private car.

Brown collided with the back of the car which had stopped to give way to another vehicle, Insp. Duffy said.

When Police approached Brown they noticed that his breath smelled of alcohol and his eyes were glazed.

He denied that he had anything to drink.

But a subsequent test showed that Brown had 199 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Insp. Duffy noted that Brown had convictions for alcohol-related offences dating back to 1985.

He also noted that Brown had frequently committed the offences within months of getting his licence back.

He was last before the court in 1990 for driving while impaired.

Brown was fined $600 and received a three-month suspended prison sentence for two years.

Brown's lawyer MP Mr. Trevor Moniz told Mrs. Mapp the accident on January 28 occurred at one of the Island's "worst accident spots''.

"The accident was not caused by inebriation,'' he said, adding that Brown's insurance company had paid for the damages to the other car.

"His pattern of behaviour appears to be one that he has been unable to significantly change over the years,'' Mr. Moniz said. And he asked Mrs. Mapp to show some lenience.

While noting that Brown had no recognables, Mrs. Mapp asked Brown: "Are you waiting until you kill somebody or yourself before you stop drinking and driving?'' "This is your fifth conviction within a period of nine years,'' she said.

"That is five separate times that you may have committed a murder. You are a danger to our roads. As far as I'm concerned, you should not hold a licence ever.'' But Mrs. Mapp noted that her sentencing powers in the lower court were limited.

In addition to the 18-month driving ban, she fined Brown $500.