Drunk man crashed fiancee’s car
A man who crashed his fiancee’s BMW as he tried to move it from a parking space while drunk, has been fined and banned from driving.Jahroy Simons, 25, hit a green Chevrolet on Reid Street around 9pm on Thursday, February 17.According to prosecutor Takiyah Burgess, a note was left on the windshield of the Chevrolet explaining a red BMW had been seen hitting the vehicle from the rear and driving away.Simons admitted when he appeared at Magistrates’ Court that he penned the note.The owner of the Chevrolet, Austin Clarke, complained to a police patrol on Front Street.Officers identified the registered owner of the offending vehicle as Karimah Moore. She told them the driver at the time of the incident was Simons.Ms Burgess did not explain how the police came to speak to Simons that evening. However, she said that he stepped out of the car smelling heavily of alcohol after they tracked him down.Asked if he had been drinking, he replied: “Yes, I had two Elephants at Leopard’s Club.”A breath test showed he was almost twice the legal alcohol limit, with 151 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.Ms Burgess told the court that Simons already has six demerit points against his name.Simons explained to Magistrate Juan Wolffe: “I left a note. The reason I didn’t stay is because it [the BMW] was blocking someone in.”He said Ms Moore is his fiancée and the car is registered to her. He told the magistrate he only maneuvered the BMW because it was blocking another car in.“I didn’t really drive anywhere, I was just letting somebody else out. If it weren’t for having to move for somebody else I wouldn’t have been driving,” he said.Mr Wolffe told him he accepted the explanation. In addition to the fine he meted out ten more demerit points and a 12-month driving ban.