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Drink driver: 'I've wrecked my girlfriend's bike'

A 27-year-old St. David’s man admitted to driving with twice the legal amount of alcohol in his system.Gregory Caesar admitted in Magistrates’ Court to driving while impaired in the early hours of January 9.Crown counsel Kirsty-Ann Kiellor told the court that at 3.13am, police outside St. David’s Cricket Club saw Caesar driving west along Great Bay Road. Shortly afterwards they found him at the scene of a single vehicle crash on St. David’s Road. Caesar was unsteady on his feet and smelled strongly of intoxicants.He told police: “Yes, I’m drunk.” When arrested and cautioned, he said: “I’ve wrecked my girlfriend’s bike.”A breath test at Hamilton Police Station showed 161 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 80.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Caesar $1,000 and banned him from driving for one year.