A man discovered by police pinned beneath a motorcycle has been banned from driving all vehicles for 18 months.

Basil Gibbons Jr, 63, admitted having care and control of a motorbike with more than the legal alcohol limit in his system and without a valid driver’s licence when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The court heard that police found Gibbons with his vehicle, which was running and had its lights on, on top of him near the Arboretum in Devonshire on December 6 last year.

Officers helped get the motorcycle off Gibbons, who told them he did not need medical assistance.

Gibbons, from St George’s, was questioned and taken to Hamilton Police Station, where tests revealed between 198 and 202 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of his blood. The legal limit for driving in Bermuda is 80mg/100ml.

In addition to the ban, Gibbons was ordered to observe DUI Court, to which he had previously been sentenced, from October 27.

Senior magistrate Maxanne Anderson also ordered a drug report be written for Gibbons, and released him on $3,500 bail.

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